| 词汇 | impolite |
| 释义 | impolite adjective formaluk /ˌɪm.pəlˈaɪt/ us /ˌɪm.pəlˈaɪt/ B2 behaving in a way that is not socially correct and shows a lack of understanding of and care for other people's feelings: 不礼貌的，粗鲁的 impolite language/behaviour粗鲁的语言／行为 impolite toIt is impolite to point at people.用手指着人是不礼貌的。 It would be impolite to leave in the middle of the band's set. Synonym rude(NOT POLITE) Opposites civil polite not polite rudeHe made a rude remark about the staff. impoliteShe asks direct questions without being in any way impolite. cheekyUKYou asked your teacher how old she was? That was a bit cheeky! disrespectfulThe class was very disrespectful towards the new teacher. impertinentIt was clear that they found his questions impertinent. insolentWhat an ungrateful, insolent child! It was considered impolite or rude to ask how much people earned. I tried to return mine the next day but my employer pointed out that my host would see this as impolite. It is bad form to make noise during play, and people hushed others for being impolite. Rude and cheeky backchat cheekily cheekiness cheeky churlishly churlishness coarse-grained fruity gall indelicate neanderthal obnoxiously obnoxiousness offensively offensiveness pertly sass unceremonious unpleasant unprintable Related wordsimpolitely impoliteness impolite | American Dictionaryimpolite adjective us/ˌɪm·pəˈlɑɪt/ rude; not polite Examples of impoliteimpolite It is impolite to ask for a second plate. Some worry that it is somehow undiplomatic or impolite to speak the language of right and wrong. It is considered rude or impolite to address people in positions of authority, or people who are older than onseself, by their actual names. This latter interpretation is rarely available in the literature on politeness, most of which automatically treats everything that is not polite as impolite. While the first sentence may be deemed impolite, the last, which is extra-polite, may seem to belong more appropriately to the sub-register of formal communication. By avoiding hi, women hope to avoid being perceived as impolite, crass, and uneducated. They also felt that the word was neutral (32) rather than impolite (4). In the analyzed instructions, they seem to be one of the basic forms and by no means impolite. How do we keep your foreign language without being impolite or inhospitable to the public, our host in the theatre? On the average, about a third of the respondents indicated that inspection officials were unfriendly or impolite, introduced artificial complications, explicitly or implicitly asked for bribes, or were incompetent. If e-mail messages were brief because of a fairly low proficiency level on the part of a student, this might be misinterpreted pragmatically as being impolite or a threat. Impolite, inconsiderate supervision may not be a major contributing factor to psychiatric disorders at least when relational justice is not extremely low. Some patients shared insights that people reacted poorly not out of maliciousness, but from their own discomfort and beliefs that they might be intrusive or impolite. These are often but not invariably impolite. I will not be so impolite as one prominent journalist has been. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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