unpolite

Example Sentences

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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

At the same time many are unpolite, not because they mean to be so, but because they are awkward, and perhaps know no better.

From How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success by Calhoon, Major A.R.

She had often observed, that the blunt method of contradicting, which some bosom friends practise in conversation, is of sovereign power to provoke; and this consequently, though unpolite, she disdained not to imitate.

From Tales and Novels — Volume 06 by Edgeworth, Maria

St. Anthony had no harder fight with the ladies he was unpolite enough to call demons, than I in resisting the temptation to take another look at that pen-and-ink love making.

From Quest of the Golden Girl, a Romance by Le Gallienne, Richard

He is unpolite, cruel, insolent, unwise, a trifler in his own happiness.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 by Richardson, Samuel