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Definition of Impolitenesses
1. impoliteness [n] - See also: impoliteness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impolitenesses
Literary usage of Impolitenesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1884)
"I have a book, and we can put down the impolitenesses for the next four days,
and make the first strings Saturday." "But we must have a constitution and ..."
2. Evelina, Or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World by Fanny Burney (1906)
""Ay, now," cried Madame Duval, "that's another of the impolitenesses of you
English, to go to talking of such things as that: now in Paris nobody never says ..."
3. The Age of Transition, 1400-1580 by Frederick John Snell (1905)
"Caxton, however, did not approve of this method, and to satisfy all parties, ‘and
also for excuse of the said Socrates,' relegated these impolitenesses to a ..."
4. The Kingdom of Evils: Psychiatric Social Work Presented in One Hundred Case by Elmer Ernest Southard, Mary Cromwell Jarrett (1922)
"Whatever bad habits in the sexual field and whatever bad table manners and other
impolitenesses Scott might have been guilty of, probably all of these ..."
5. Out West: A Magazine of the Old Pacific and the New by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Archaeological Institute of America Southwest Society, Sequoya League (1903)
"... who were far longer in the same field ; and it is comfortable to be assured
that Mr. Burroughs will commit none of these Impolitenesses. ..."
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