Miss Manners's assumption?

Usage examples of impolite.

I am neither cruel nor impolite, especially where your sex is concerned, though my refusal must make you feel otherwise.

If you knew how impolite it was to lower your eyes when you are addressing anyone, you would not do it.

Bud was obviously prospering, but it would have been impolite to disagree with him in his own store.

The social rules of the day and this particular world made lionizing impolite.

I could have tried to get the measure of her psychically, to see if she had more than bone structure going for her, but it was impolite to try and read another person's magical ability at first introduction.

I could have tried to get the measure of her psychically, to see if she had more than bone structure going for her, but it was impolite to try and read another persons magical ability at first introduction.

Slyne's quadruplets - it would have been impolite to inquire whether they were actually his own - looked like little bloated manta rays, pale and trailing almost useless tentacles, forever bumping into their master or each other and getting themselves tangled in their tethers.

But it would have been impolite to move in on such an invite with his six-gun out.

Some of these investigators were tactless and impolite, as only teen-agers can be, to the point of being offensive.

Secondly, before we lose our own heads for being so impolite, for wearing shoes indoors, for moving a guy's head closer to the fire, I'd like to try to explain how we got into this latest Time Warp jam.

Radigast had begun to chew a pod, impassively, after taking steps to assure that his virtual image would not be so impolite.