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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
impolite
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It is impolite not to eat what you are served at a dinner party.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Bear this in mind when you feel impatient or impolite.
▪ But it would be impolite to leave in the middle of the band's set.
▪ Emmie thought it would be impolite to Mrs Sargent to let her see the clothes she had bought looking like that.
▪ It's impolite to challenge their integrity, the veracity of their self-expression.
▪ It is thought impolite to accuse voters, sometimes called people, of having in any way failed.
▪ It would have been impolite to refuse so Elisa found herself back in the sitting room.
▪ She had no wish to appear impolite but there was something about the man that made her cringe.
▪ So, don't let me, ever again, hear that you have been impolite to any of the sisters.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Impolite

Impolite \Im`po*lite"\, a. [L. impolitus unpolishied, pref. im- not + politus, p. p. of polire to polish, refine. See Polite.] Not polite; not of polished manners; wanting in good manners; discourteous; uncivil; rude. -- Im`po*lite"ly, adv. -- Im`po*lite"ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
impolite

1610s, "unrefined, rough," from Latin impolitus "unpolished, rough, unrefined," from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + politus "polished" (see polite). Sense of "discourteous, ill-mannered" is from 1739. Related: Impolitely; impoliteness.

Wiktionary
impolite

a. Not polite; not of polished manners; wanting in good manners.

WordNet
impolite

adj. not polite [ant: polite]

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.