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Impoliteness

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The state of being impolite; incivility; rudeness.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Incivility; rudeness.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a discourteous manner that ignores accepted social usage

Word Usage

""Because it would be error; it's the worst kind of impoliteness to treat anybody that doesn't ask you to; but I've got to know every minute that her belief is a lie, and that God doesn't know anything about it.""

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

discourtesy rudeness

Hyponym

gaucheness ill-breeding bad manners crudity crudeness

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

ill breeding rudeness unmannerliness discourtesy ungentleness

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

perience way? discourtesy puttin incivility