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Unparliamentary   Listen
Unparliamentary

adjective
1.
So rude and abusive as to be unsuitable for parliament.





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... could stay home and tackle this job with you. There is nothing I would like to do so much as really to say in parliamentary language what I think of the people that are opposing it. I would reserve the right in private to say in unparliamentary language what I think of them, but in public I would try to stick to parliamentary language. Because of all the blind and little, provincial people, they are the littlest and most contemptible. It is not their character so much that I have a contempt for, though that contempt is thoroughgoing, ...
— Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him • Joseph P. Tumulty


Words linked to "Unparliamentary" :   impolite


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