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Definition of impolite in English: impoliteadjective ɪmpəˈlʌɪtˌɪmpəˈlaɪt Not having or showing good manners; rude. 无礼的，粗鲁的 it would have been impolite to refuse 如果当时拒绝会显得无礼。 Example sentencesExamples - I could always keep myself occupied snooping around the desk, but it was impolite to do something like that.
- Food and drink are immediately offered when one enters a Croatian home, and it is considered impolite to refuse.
- The manager, in a very impolite manner, told them to leave the bar and never come back.
- Instead, these people are just as selfish and impolite as any ordinary person, but are more convinced that they have a right to behave that way.
- Western influence has made Chinese people feel that it is impolite to ask a person's age.
- It is impolite to leave the table before everybody has finished the meal.
- If you don't mind my asking a perhaps impolite question: Do you believe in God?
- He went out of his way to be just as impolite and insolent as he could be.
- In Vietnam, for example, a direct refusal or negative answer is considered impolite and crude.
- I knew it was rude and impolite but I was too distressed to be thinking of manners.
- One needs something effective to say to all these impolite people.
- Is it considered impolite in the US to eat from someone else's plate?
- Although it was impolite to stare, she could not help gawking at him.
- I know that I might seem a little bit impolite, but we really must be going.
- I believe that you were impolite and disrespectful to your host.
- I wasn't being deliberately impolite; I was simply expressing confusion.
- Notice how some clever perpetrators of downright rudeness can make you feel as though you are the impolite one.
- For example, in Singapore, it would be considered impolite to use the horn, even though it may not be illegal.
- He was rude and arrogant and completely impolite and I hope I never have to see him ever again.
- Improper position or display of the feet is always considered impolite.
Synonyms rude, bad-mannered, ill-mannered, unmannerly, discourteous, uncivil, disrespectful, inconsiderate, boorish, churlish, ill-bred, ungentlemanly, unladylike, ungracious, ungallant insolent, impudent, impertinent, cheeky, pert, audacious, brassy, offensive, insulting, derogatory loutish, rough, crude, unrefined, indelicate, indecorous, brash, vulgar informal ignorant, fresh, lippy archaic malapert, contumelious rare underbred, mannerless
Derivativesadverb ɪmpəˈlʌɪtli ‘You have a strange name,’ I informed him impolitely. Example sentencesExamples - The first people into the stores of Little Gnawing were now carefully filing out, anxious not to hurt anyone or even impolitely push past them in the crowd.
- Unhappy at her placing, she returned to the stage and gestured impolitely at the judges, thus receiving a two-year suspension.
- He ignored her, turning his head away impolitely.
- You have acted impolitely, and there's no excuse for it.
noun ɪmpəˈlʌɪtnəs I smiled to myself, and then realized my impoliteness. Example sentencesExamples - He doesn't mean any of us impoliteness, but he needs a bit longer to warm to us.
- However, Amy's ‘please forgive me’ face stopped Catherine and made her regret her impoliteness.
- It wasn't really impoliteness or maliciousness, just a practiced logic.
- Well, I couldn't take her impoliteness to mean she was undereducated - except in the manners department.
OriginEarly 17th century (in the sense 'unpolished'): from Latin impolitus, from in- 'not' + politus (see polite). Rhymesaffright, alight, alright, aright, bedight, bight, bite, blight, bright, byte, cite, dight, Dwight, excite, fight, flight, fright, goodnight, height, ignite, indict, indite, invite, kite, knight, light, lite, might, mite, night, nite, outfight, outright, plight, polite, quite, right, rite, sight, site, skintight, skite, sleight, slight, smite, Snow-white, spite, sprite, tight, tonight, trite, twite, underwrite, unite, uptight, white, wight, wright, write Definition of impolite in US English: impoliteadjectiveˌimpəˈlītˌɪmpəˈlaɪt Not having or showing good manners; rude. 无礼的，粗鲁的 it would have been impolite to refuse 如果当时拒绝会显得无礼。 Example sentencesExamples - I believe that you were impolite and disrespectful to your host.
- I know that I might seem a little bit impolite, but we really must be going.
- Although it was impolite to stare, she could not help gawking at him.
- It is impolite to leave the table before everybody has finished the meal.
- For example, in Singapore, it would be considered impolite to use the horn, even though it may not be illegal.
- Food and drink are immediately offered when one enters a Croatian home, and it is considered impolite to refuse.
- I knew it was rude and impolite but I was too distressed to be thinking of manners.
- In Vietnam, for example, a direct refusal or negative answer is considered impolite and crude.
- Instead, these people are just as selfish and impolite as any ordinary person, but are more convinced that they have a right to behave that way.
- One needs something effective to say to all these impolite people.
- He went out of his way to be just as impolite and insolent as he could be.
- I could always keep myself occupied snooping around the desk, but it was impolite to do something like that.
- If you don't mind my asking a perhaps impolite question: Do you believe in God?
- Notice how some clever perpetrators of downright rudeness can make you feel as though you are the impolite one.
- Western influence has made Chinese people feel that it is impolite to ask a person's age.
- Improper position or display of the feet is always considered impolite.
- I wasn't being deliberately impolite; I was simply expressing confusion.
- He was rude and arrogant and completely impolite and I hope I never have to see him ever again.
- Is it considered impolite in the US to eat from someone else's plate?
- The manager, in a very impolite manner, told them to leave the bar and never come back.
Synonyms rude, bad-mannered, ill-mannered, unmannerly, discourteous, uncivil, disrespectful, inconsiderate, boorish, churlish, ill-bred, ungentlemanly, unladylike, ungracious, ungallant
OriginEarly 17th century (in the sense ‘unpolished’): from Latin impolitus, from in- ‘not’ + politus (see polite). |