unpolitenessn.

1684 C. Blount Janua Scientiarum v. 96 Finally, he is condemn'd for the obscurity and unpoliteness of Stile.

1725 A. Blackwall Sacred Classics I. i. ii. 65 Sad outcries are made of the unpoliteness of the style.

1785 T. Warton in J. Milton Poems (new ed.) 313 It was esteemed a mark of ignorance or unpoliteness not to understand Euphuism.

1825 A. Clarke Introd. Amos p. ii, in Holy Bible V They who accuse them [sc. sacred writers] of rusticity and unpoliteness in their way of writing could not choose a style more suitable.

1693 S. R. tr. A. Baillet Life M. Des Cartes iv. 108 Disheartened by the unpoliteness of Monsieur Roberval.., he did not resolve to answer him, because he stood upon his points, and was out of humour.

1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 39 Unpoliteness is a Vice that gives the World a right to complain of us.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. xxxiii. 176 I have just carried un-politeness far enough to make her afraid of me.

1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. xxvi. 118 (heading) Chapter xxvi. atones for the unpoliteness of a former chapter, which deserted a lady most unceremoniously.

1858 T. Carlyle Let. 22 Jan. in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (2005) XXXIII. xxiii. 197 The shocking unpoliteness of breaking an express promise.

1880 Athenæum 5 June 725 Their own unpoliteness and ill temper.

1902 H. Belloc Path to Rome 32 They..gave me to understand (though without violence or unpoliteness) that I looked as though I were the man to steal their lions and tigers.

1969 Valley Independent (Monessen, Pa.) 24 May 8/6 For personal unpoliteness we apologize, but we would argue the urgency of our cause.

1700 tr. G. de Courtilz de Sandras French Spy i. 9 It being impossible to give you a true Idea of the unpoliteness of the Inhabitants of that Country; for..to me they appear'd..more like Bears than Men.

1702 L. Echard Gen. Eccl. Hist. Introd. 20 They [sc. the Galileans] were..a People of great Courage..and of no less Plainess and Unpoliteness.

1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iii. 49 Twelve Colonies could not do very much towards civilizing a People so prone to Unpoliteness as were the natural Africans.

1776 T. Harmer Observ. Script. (ed. 2) II. vi. 130 The great Emir indeed of the Arabs.., was not wont to inclose his letters in these bags..; but that is supposed to have been owing to the unpoliteness of the Arabs.