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Honesty that forgot to put on deodorant first.

means The quality of behavior that disregards accepted standards of courtesy, consideration, or respect toward others.

from Built from 'polite,' which comes from Latin politus, meaning 'polished' or 'smoothed' — the past participle of polire, to polish. The earliest 'polite' things were literally smooth surfaces; the sense shifted to refined manners by the 1500s–1600s, the idea being that good manners are a kind of social buffing. Add the negating 'im-' (from Latin in-) and 'impolite' is simply the unpolished version — rough edges left on, nothing smoothed down.

origin
from polite, meaning polished or smoothed
linguistics note
rudeness often just means skipping expected padding
social cost
breaks cooperation rules everyone silently agreed to
paradox
calling someone rude is itself mildly impolite
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