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Rude

adjective
(compar. ruder; superl. rudest)
1.
Socially incorrect in behavior.  Synonyms: bad-mannered, ill-mannered, unmannered, unmannerly.
2.
(of persons) lacking in refinement or grace.  Synonyms: bounderish, ill-bred, lowbred, underbred, yokelish.
3.
Lacking civility or good manners.  Synonym: uncivil.  Antonym: civil.
4.
(used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes.  Synonyms: natural, raw.  "Natural produce" , "Raw wool" , "Raw sugar" , "Bales of rude cotton"
5.
Belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness.  Synonyms: crude, primitive.  "Primitive movies of the 1890s" , "Primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains"



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"Rude" Quotes from Famous Books



... you," said her mother, wringing out the caps from the tub. "When your brother began, you ought to have waited to see if he could not tell the story. How rude you look, pushing and frowning, as if you wanted to conquer with your elbows! Cincinnatus, I am sure, would have been sorry to see his daughter behave so." (Mrs. Garth delivered this awful sentence with much majesty of enunciation, and Letty felt that between repressed volubility and general disesteem, ...
— Middlemarch • George Eliot

... went on staring at the children, and a crowd soon gathered round them. Presently some rude boys began to ask them all sorts of questions and to laugh at them. Nelly did not like it at all. She thought she would not wait for her father any longer, but go home. They tried to turn back, but found Chinese all round them, and felt quite frightened. ...
— The Little Girl Lost - A Tale for Little Girls • Eleanor Raper

... him on the matted floor. He then drew from his kimono sleeve a pink-bordered foreign pocket-handkerchief, and began to mop his damp forehead. Kano's politeness could not hide, entirely, a shudder of antipathy. He hurried into new speech. "And where, if it is not rude to ask, has my friend Ando sojourned during ...
— The Dragon Painter • Mary McNeil Fenollosa

... of coaching they attributed considerable of their success on the diamond of recent months. If only his rules were strictly adhered to it was possible that Allandale and Belleville might be due for another rude surprise when they came over, bent on carrying off the majority of the ...
— The Chums of Scranton High on the Cinder Path • Donald Ferguson

... travels lighted on a strangely shaped mountain, whose huge curves, and sombre colouring have interested me indefinably. In the rude mass at the far angle, Mr. Jos. Larkin, I fancy, found some such subject of contemplation. And the more he looked, the more he felt disposed ...
— Wylder's Hand • J. Sheridan Le Fanu


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