How to Use impolite in a Sentence

impolite

adjective
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  • Trillin would never reach for such off-the-shelf and impolite verbiage.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2024
  • And not to be impolite, but the love scene with the two of you, was that done before the break or after the break?
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2021
  • When you are finished, it is seen as impolite to fold the leaf away from you after a meal.
    — Ashlea Halpern, CNT, 19 Sep. 2017
  • Did some people think that this was poor form, or impolite to ask such things?
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2020
  • What is a good polite — or even impolite — way to tell her to put down the phone and pay attention to the world around her?
    — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
  • Dear Miss Manners: Is it considered impolite to tie the string of one’s tea bag around the teacup?
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2022
  • This was in some respects an impolitic, even impolite, thing for the first-term politician to say.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New York Review of Books, 26 Mar. 2020
  • But a couple of months into the Biden era, enough time has passed for it no longer to seem impolite to point out that we should not be reassured.
    — Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, 18 Mar. 2021
  • The Stones were dirty and impolite and played a music hardly anyone in England had ever heard of.
    — Bill Wyman, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Without wishing to be impolite, that does seem to have been a rather fine distinction . . .
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 4 Mar. 2022
  • To escape the deluge of requests, and often impolite inquiries, Kale switched her phone off for four days.
    — Sanaya Chandar, Quartz India, 10 Nov. 2019
  • In Japan, my sister, mother and I would snap awake at an impolite time and ease our way downstairs into the damp morning air.
    — Nina Li Coomes, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2022
  • My sister-in-law apparently was taught that stabbing is impolite and that the fork should be used more as a shovel to scoop up a bite of food.
    — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
  • The media has expressed polite and impolite skepticism of the idea of not going the college route.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2011
  • Maybe it is considered bad manners to vote someone out in an impolite way.
    — Stephen Fishbach, PEOPLE.com, 16 May 2018
  • Going back to at least ancient Rome, clowning figures were jesters and pranksters who teased the populace and spoke impolite truths.
    — Chicago Tribune Editorial Board, OrlandoSentinel.com, 14 Sep. 2017
  • The supporting cast all get their moments of righteous anger and impolite grief sans judgment.
    — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
  • In our society, it’s widely considered impolite to comment on weight gain, but the same doesn’t hold true for weight loss.
    — Rebecca Booroojian, Outside Online, 14 Feb. 2022
  • But if those historians are to construct new arguments to make sense of Trump, the first step may be to risk being impolite.
    — Rick Perlstein, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2017
  • Coming from a female attendee, that'd be seen as impolite.
    — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Coming from a female attendee, that’d be seen as impolite.
    — Amy Dickinson, The Denver Post, 29 Nov. 2019
  • There were several impolite chants from the stands regarding the Wings the first 10 minutes, but fans quieted after the first goal.
    — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 22 Oct. 2022
  • That's because there's nothing wrong or impolite about just saying no.
    — Carolyn Hax, Philly.com, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Overall, this is a fun film that explores cultural norms, and when they aren’t adhered to, it can be seen as an impolite gesture not to conform.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • If the third friend wants to behave badly toward your cousin, Miss Manners supposes that is her impolite right.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 15 July 2023
  • The pursuit of truths is often intrusive, impolite, even rude.
    — Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2022
  • The Ki-taeks scheme to steal the Parks’ envied luxe — an insensitive joke that admits impolite class resentment.
    — Armond White, National Review, 11 Oct. 2019
  • This impolite appellation seemed to fit a vehicle that cuts a swath 76 inches wide through the forest.
    — Martin Padgett Jr., Car and Driver, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Punching the back of a passenger's seat is impolite, according to many of the people who responded on Williams' Twitter feed.
    — Holly Yan and Scottie Andrew, CNN, 18 Feb. 2020
  • This may strike you as a little impolite—aren’t parents supposed to lavish more attention on their kids than on themselves?—but, then, art has no obligation to behave itself.
    — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023

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