unpolite
English
Etymology
From un- + polite. Compare earlier unpolished.
Adjective
unpolite (comparative more unpolite, superlative most unpolite)
- (obsolete) Unsophisticated, not refined; coarse, uncultured. [17th–20th c.]
- (now chiefly Canada, US) Lacking in good manners; impolite, discourteous. [from 17th c.]
- 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LVII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume II, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 66:
- [H]e has all along, by his threatening and unpolite behaviour to my friends, and whenever he ſpeaks of them, given me reaſon to conclude, that there is more malice to them, than regard to me, in his perſeverance.