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If you do something impolitely, you do it in a way that is not polite — you do not show the usual care for other people’s feelings. It tells you HOW someone acted: he answered impolitely; she stared impolitely. The word is fairly plain and a little formal. In everyday talk, people often just say . Though actually, rude can feel sharper, more like an attack; impolitely is cooler, more like “that was not the polite way.” It is not only about dirty words. You can interrupt impolitely, refuse impolitely, or be impolitely brief. The opposite idea is .
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原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
impolitelyadv/ˌɪmpəˈlaɪtli/
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In an impolite manner; uncivilly; rudely.
- 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.”
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。