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.
  • Did some people think that this was poor form, or impolite to ask such things?
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • Trillin would never reach for such off-the-shelf and impolite verbiage.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • This is much more than Trump being a little impolite.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 2 May 2026
  • 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
  • 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, 27 Feb. 2020
  • That's because there's nothing wrong or impolite about just saying no.
    — Carolyn Hax, Philly.com, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Maybe it is considered bad manners to vote someone out in an impolite way.
    — Stephen Fishbach, PEOPLE.com, 16 May 2018
  • But impolite conduct often happens on other parts of the field as well.
    — Kenneth Lasson, Baltimore Sun, 5 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • My answer to this very impolite shift in the season has been to give myself—and my evenings—a bit of a reset.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 5 Nov. 2025
  • One of the myths Dunlap tackles in her book is that talking about money is impolite.
    — Katy McFee, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
  • But honoring whiteness itself was deemed impolite, to say the least.
    — Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 8 June 2026
  • And folks who are worried about coming off as impolite can find a phrase that feels comfortable for them and repeat that.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The supporting cast all get their moments of righteous anger and impolite grief sans judgment.
    — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
  • The pursuit of truths is often intrusive, impolite, even rude.
    — Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2022
  • Just give us some insight into what happens when people stop being impolite and start getting old.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2021
  • If locals aren’t doing something, there’s a good chance it could be considered impolite.
    — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • My answer to this very impolite change in the season is, instead, to give myself and my cleaning schedule a bit of a reset.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The media has expressed polite and impolite skepticism of the idea of not going the college route.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2011
  • Will your departure seem impolite?
    — Jamie Cuccinelli, Martha Stewart, 2 June 2026
  • 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
  • That your hosts enjoyed an occasional cookie whilst working in the kitchen is not truly impolite, just sneaky.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2022

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