How to Use impolite in a Sentence

impolite

adjective

• It's impolite to talk during the performance.
• He made some impolite comments about her appearance.
• 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
• And that her avoidance of hosting the group is impolite and unfair to the rest of us?
  — Susan Steade, The Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2024
• 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
• Trillin would never reach for such off-the-shelf and impolite verbiage.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024