Impolite vs Unkind - What's the difference?
impolite | unkind |
(obsolete) Having no race or kindred; childless.
Not kind; contrary to nature or type; unnatural.
Lacking kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or similar; cruel, harsh or unjust; ungrateful.
* 1950 July 3, Politicians Without Politics'', '' ,
* 1974 , Laurence William Wylie, Village in the Vaucluse , 3rd Edition,
* 2000 , Edward W. Said, On Lost Causes'', in ''Reflections on Exile and Other Essays ,
As adjectives the difference between impolite and unkind
is that impolite is not polite; not of polished manners; wanting in good manners while unkind is (obsolete) having no race or kindred; childless.impolite
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Synonyms
* discourteous, uncivil, rude * See alsoDerived terms
* impolitely * impolitenessunkind
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Adjective
(en-adj)- (Shakespeare)
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- Despite the bursitis, Dewey got in a good round of golf, though his cautious game inspired a reporter to make one of the week?s unkindest remarks: “He plays golf like he plays politics — straight down the middle, and short.”
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- We had to learn that to refuse such gifts, which represented serious sacrifice, was more unkind than to accept them.
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- In the strictness with which he holds this view he belongs in the company of the novelists I have cited, except that he is unkinder and less charitable than they are.