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Impoliteness

noun
1.
A discourteous manner that ignores accepted social usage.






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"Impoliteness" Quotes from Famous Books



... carrying with it a certain promptness and decision; above all, it was a very remarkable word for Lucy to use. "The girl is a martinet in these things," thought he; "she can't forgive the least bit of impoliteness. I suppose he snubbed Jack Tar. What a crime! But I had better let this blow over before I go any farther." So he postponed ...
— Love Me Little, Love Me Long • Charles Reade

... Italians, Czechs, Poles, Greeks, Assyrians, or whatever nationalities now compose those hordes, remain somewhat in the tradition of their home civility; but their children, their grandchildren, pick up our impoliteness with the first words of our language, or our slang, which they make their adoptive mother-tongue long before they realize that it is slang. When they do realize it, they still like it better than language, and as no manners are easier than manners, they prefer ...
— Imaginary Interviews • W. D. Howells

... of the things you have said to me are very reasonable, but that does not prevent you from being wrong. Like you, I used formerly to feel very indignant at the impoliteness of men, who, as I supposed, constantly treated me with neglect; but, as I grew older and reflected on everything, putting aside coquetry and observing things without taking any part in them myself, I perceived this much—that if men are not ...
— A Comedy of Marriage & Other Tales • Guy De Maupassant



Words linked to "Impoliteness" :   ill-breeding, politeness, rudeness, impolite, crudity, discourtesy, bad manners, crudeness, gaucheness



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