impolitely
English
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Pronunciation
[edit]- (US) IPA(key): /ˌɪmpəˈlaɪtli/
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Adverb
[edit]impolitely (comparative more impolitely, superlative most impolitely)
- In an impolite manner; uncivilly; rudely.
- 1850, Herman Melville, White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, publishers; London: Richard Bentley, published 1855, →OCLC:
- This fine officer touched his laced hat most courteously to our Captain, who, after returning the compliment, stared at him, rather impolitely, through his spy-glass.
- 1901, Carlo Collodi, translated by Walter Samuel Cramp, The Adventures of Pinocchio:
- Poor Crab! It was as if he had spoken to the wind. That scoundrel, Pinocchio, turned around and said most impolitely: “Oh, hush! ugly Crab. You would do better to eat some seaweed and cure that cold of yours. Go home to bed and take a good sweat.”
- 1920, Sinclair Lewis, Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, →OCLC:
- you can keep on looking at one thing after another in your home and church and bank, and ask why it is, and who first laid down the law that it had to be that way. If enough of us do this impolitely enough, then we'll become civilized in merely twenty thousand years or so, instead of having to wait the two hundred thousand years that my cynical anthropologist friends allow
- 2024 August 14, Bryn Haworth, “Artificial Ignorance: broligarchs and their brains should read Gulliver”, in Al Majalla[1], archived from the original on 11 September 2024:
- Max Chafkin, Thiel's biographer, describes Vance as his "extension", while Cadwalladr describes Vance, somewhat impolitely, as "Thiel's creature… a man Thiel moulded in his own image through lavish investments in his business and political careers".
Translations
[edit]in an impolite manner
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References
[edit]- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “impolitely”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.