impoliteness

The idea here is not to encourage impoliteness but to reduce pain.

He noted the impoliteness and turned on her, suddenly angry.

"Politeness or impoliteness, what does it matter in an affair of life and death?"

"Please tell him I can't see very well, hence my impoliteness."

She is abused by her mother often due to disobedience and impoliteness.

But Valentine still hesitated to be impolite even in the face of this impoliteness.

She had seldom done that before-no impoliteness, for the realities would have left the young couple to themselves.

She added wistfully, "My robots will protect me if his impoliteness becomes extreme."

"Civilized readers," they noted, "will not be amused by the impoliteness of surprise."

Its use can also mean rudeness, impoliteness or offensiveness.

"Pardon me for my impoliteness, but time dictates my schedule."

Naipaul remains the soul of impoliteness at these reunions.

But at the high school here, the adults in charge decided to draw a line between kids-will-be-kids behavior and plain impoliteness.

"I decline to answer that question, if you'll excuse the impoliteness," Stevens said, his voice quavering slightly.

Like Omnes, he was punished for his impoliteness by losing in the next round.

They do not like such impoliteness.

Some people see this as liberating; others denounce it as a pandemic of impoliteness.

Once having established herself within Poirot's sanctum, it might be hard to induce her to go home without a certain amount of impoliteness.

Even generals cannot be shot for impoliteness."

And, if they're beautiful besides, they grow up knowing they can indulge their impoliteness to the hilt.

So its developers programmed some "impoliteness," into the machine, instructing it to sense an elevator's arrival and push forward.

No impoliteness I could discern.

I beg forgiveness for my impoliteness, Your Eminence.

No investigators received any threats of violence during the tests, the police said, although there was some impoliteness and a fair amount of impatience.

Cedrick stared curiously at the wheel chair for a moment until he realized his attention might be construed as impoliteness.