What's the difference between discourteous and impolite?

Discourteous


Definition:

  • (a.) Uncivil; rude; wanting in courtesy or good manners; uncourteous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But the fact that there is a serious disagreement between Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom does not mean that you should then be discourteous or rude."
  • (2) Half of each sample rated the average driver in their age group and the average driver in the opposite age group as regarded thirty-three attitudes promoting safe driving, twenty courteous safe driving behaviors and eleven discourteous, unsafe driving behaviors.
  • (3) I’ve certainly never heard anything as discourteous from anyone who has visited our country – and I’ve heard a lot of things.
  • (4) A spokeswoman said: "There is a meeting between management and unions and we have nothing to say before then because it would be discourteous to the unions and the process we have been involved in."
  • (5) Only 51% expressed a dislike of any aspect of the clinic (long waits, 24%; discourteous staff, 19%; and lack of cleanliness, 5%).
  • (6) In Louisville, Kentucky , several distress calls had been made by Latino voters saying they had been treated discourteously by election officials and discouraged from voting.
  • (7) Garvey naggers on with a question so weirdly phrased it sounds a bit discourteous.
  • (8) He was right to apologise because being discourteous to the police is a bad thing.
  • (9) Your coverage of Tom Watson’s excellent speech (theguardian.com, 27 September) noted that he called on Labour to stop “trashing the record” of the Blair and Brown governments but failed to mention his leading role in the “coup” against Mr Blair in 2006, which hastened his resignation a year later, prompting him to describe Watson’s actions as “disloyal, discourteous and wrong” and a “totally unnecessary attempt to unseat the party leader, less than 15 months after our historic third term victory” .
  • (10) Data shows that younger drivers viewed older drivers as overly cautious, too slow to act and apt to cause accidents, and rated their peers as overly aggressive and discourteous.
  • (11) But, by and large, the discourteousness has not been reciprocated.
  • (12) Blair attacked the move as “disloyal, discourteous and wrong” and Watson himself resigned.
  • (13) Giddings said that although he did not believe he had undermined or personally criticised Welby, he had apologised to the archbishop, who had since told him he had found nothing offensive, discourteous, impolite or disrespectful in his words.
  • (14) The judges were also asked to assess whether in their opinion the letters were of value in teaching or were discourteous.
  • (15) Nonetheless, Shkreli’s short appearance in Washington became explosive when committee members were infuriated by his discourteous facial expressions as the event unfolded.
  • (16) When I identified as either "raised as Christian" or "without belief", I never received a discourteous response, and had only one individual attempt to convert me during a discussion in the back office of his market.
  • (17) McIntyre responded with formal requests to Tom Karl at the National Climate Data Centre, where he guessed the data would have been held, and to the journal, saying Santer's response had been "discourteous".

Impolite


Definition:

  • (a.) Not polite; not of polished manners; wanting in good manners; discourteous; uncivil; rude.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lebedev said it would be "impolite" for him to think about any influence on British politics.
  • (2) 2) Subjects who received impolite messages showed positive attitude change toward computers despite the impolite messages.
  • (3) But we suppress so much just because it's impolite."
  • (4) Subjects became aggressive when impolite message were given repeatedly.
  • (5) But there is also the legendary case of the renowned South Korean director Shin Sang-ok who was actually kidnapped in 1978 from Hong Kong on the orders of Kim Jong-il who wanted him to make films promoting the good name of North Korea — the South Koreans evidently accepted (or thought it impolitic publicly to dispute) Kim’s claim that Shin had come willingly.
  • (6) To be impolite, it is theft," he said , branding search engines such as Google and Yahoo as "content kleptomaniacs" .
  • (7) And Gehry has a history of struggles with boards and impolitic comments.
  • (8) The frontrunner has spent much of the campaign apologising for impolite remarks about neighbours.
  • (9) But before the night ended, Minaj responded to criticism from the show’s host, Miley Cyrus, who had said in a New York Times interview last week that Minaj’s criticism was impolite and came from a place of jealousy.
  • (10) "But be punished in a way where people don't feel the managers are strange or weird or impolite people, or people without control."
  • (11) Taking a mobile phone picture of the emperor or his family is also considered impolite.
  • (12) I do, partly because it seems ungrateful and impolite not to, and partly because there's nothing else, really, to call oneself while retaining any connection to an original sense of justice.
  • (13) She declined to say how old she was, deeming it an “impolite question”, saying instead: “If you really need a number then go ahead and make it up based on my photographs”.
  • (14) Randall’s occasionally impolitic remarks made national headlines such as in 2010 when he referred to the national broadcaster as “Gay-BC”, and again in 2011 when he accused the mining industry of being “pussy -whipped” by Rudd’s successor, Julia Gillard, over the proposed mining tax.
  • (15) I believe at the end of the day I'll be seen as the 'impolite guy', the one who's aggressive in his words.
  • (16) But Judt's willingness to voice, as the New York Times recently put it, "impolite truths" brought attacks from fellow intellectuals.
  • (17) To act otherwise would have been “aggressive” and impolite.
  • (18) 5.05pm BST 1 min: The Dutch allow Australia to get some early touches at the back without any impolite pressure.
  • (19) Indeed, while the point of this study was to examine the medical profession's use of placebos, nobody seems impolite enough to point out that there are times when it's the patients' own fault if they end up smarting from a saline injection they didn't need.
  • (20) Giddings said that although he did not believe he had undermined or personally criticised Welby, he had apologised to the archbishop, who had since told him he had found nothing offensive, discourteous, impolite or disrespectful in his words.

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