impolitely
/ˌɪmpəˈlaɪtli/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.25 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "This fine officer touched his laced hat most courteously to our Captain, who, after returning the compliment, stared at him, rather impolitely, through his spy-glass."
- "Poor Crab! It was as if he had spoken to the wind. That scoundrel, Pinocchio, turned around and said most impolitely: “Oh, hush! ugly Crab. You would do better to eat some seaweed and cure that cold of yours. Go home to bed and take a good sweat.”"
- "you can keep on looking at one thing after another in your home and church and bank, and ask why it is, and who first laid down the law that it had to be that way. If enough of us do this impolitely enough, then we'll become civilized in merely twenty thousand years or so, instead of having to wait the two hundred thousand years that my cynical anthropologist friends allow"
- "Max Chafkin, Thiel's biographer, describes Vance as his "extension", while Cadwalladr describes Vance, somewhat impolitely, as "Thiel's creature… a man Thiel moulded in his own image through lavish investments in his business and political careers"."
Etymology
Etymology tree English impolite Middle English -ly English -ly English impolitely From impolite + -ly.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌɪmpəˈlaɪtli/
Inflected Forms
more impolitely (comparative)
most impolitely (superlative)