unpolite

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These raw, rude, thoroughly unpolite shows open a window on a brand new England, from the gritty Bosnian-war drama Peacekeepers to the Lynchian small-town comic horrors of The League of Gentlemen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her Husband could never prevail upon her to dress as became a Person of her Rank, nor to alter any thing in her Furniture, tho' ever so unpolite.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

It's unpolite to contradict you, but I think that would be difficult.

From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 by Sue, Eugène

O Dr. Bartlett, I must have been thought an unpolite husband, had she been my wife!

From The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) by Richardson, Samuel

When Bess gave her Dollies a Tea, said she,— "It's unpolite, when they's Company, To say you've drinked two cups, you see,— But say you've drinked a couple of tea."

From The Book of Joyous Children by Vawter, Will