Word Finder - rude

definition

Bad-mannered.

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Karen broke up with Fred because he was often rude to her.

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Somewhat obscene, pornographic, offensive.

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Tough, robust.

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Undeveloped, unskilled, basic.

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Hearty, vigorous; found particularly in the phrase rude health.

It simply wasn't like him to be rude like that.

The sailors were rude and unruly.

There they might live in peace and safety while all the country round was overrun by rude and barbarous men.

It was rude to act this way to hosts who had invited them into their home on such a special occasion.

I flared up and said much that was unpleasant and even rude to him.

I'm sorry I was rude to you, and I know it's not your fault you look so good in that suit.

I'm sorry, that was rude.

He was being positively rude.

The pottery of the Malays is rude but curious.

Explain the rules politely; there is no need to be rude.

It was probably best to ignore the remark, and she was able to do so without being rude when the doorbell rang.

He thus became the inventor of a new form of literature; and, if in his hands the satura was rude and indeterminate in its scope, it became a vehicle by which to address a reading public on matters of the day, or on the materials of his wide reading, in a style not far removed from the language of common life.

I'm afraid to do anything rude because I don't want to hurt his feelings.

He wasn't trying to be rude; he was merely fending off an uncomfortable subject.

Hitherto all Ottoman writing, even the most highly Classical finished, had been somewhat rude and uncouth; but.

In natural soothsaying this frenzy is the necessary physical accompaniment of an afflatus which, though it seems supernatural to a rude people, is really akin to poetic inspiration.

The other side knew it would be futile and rude in front of everyone.

She was so rude, so abrupt asking me if I was over my panic attacks.

I hope I wasn't rude in my question, just nosey.

Not only is this poor business etiquette, I also consider it to be extremely rude of you.

It 's just that he thought it was rude to interrupt.

Anyway, as you called, all be it a long time ago I thought it would be rude to ignore you.

I wondered whether to tell you a rather rude story !

I do n't mean to be too rude, but your editorial has the verve of a lower high school fanzine.

Tom thinks he's being funny, but he's only being facetious and rude.

Her father did not mean his bluster of threats, he was just frustrated with her rude behavior.

It's rude and shows immaturity and selfishness.

A bad friend might also be selfish, rude, inconsiderate, and take pride in making fun of other friends.

They're called "rude" for a reason, after all!

Sure, there will be those who see a woman in one and have some rude responses.

If you are rude to the receptionist, it's likely to get back to the interviewing committee.

You say you have no problem with her roommate, but you felt like a third wheel and thought she was rude for speaking in her native language.

But such rude legislation could not provide for all questions arising even in the decayed state of Roman civilization.'

Divination of this sort, therefore, may be due to observation and experiment of a rude sort, rather than to the unchecked play of fancy which resulted in heteroscopic divination.

Homer, he said, was dumb to him, while he was deaf to Homer; and he could only approach the Iliad in Boccaccio's rude Latin version.

In some tribes a rude form of printing designs on cloth is practised, and on the Sankuru and Lukenye a special kind of cloth, with a heavy pile resembling velvet, is made by Bakuba and other tribes.

The aborigines are represented by a few rude hill-tribes, who resemble in physique the Battas of Sumatra.

As for the story of the orang-utan cabin boy, this may even be verbally true, it being borne in mind that in the Malay languages the term orang-utan, " man of the forest," was originally used for inland forest natives and other rude men, rather than for the miyas apes to which it has come to be generally applied by Europeans.

With this comes the whole vast and ever-widening range of inventive and adaptive art, where the uniform hereditary instinct of the cell-forming bee and the nest-building bird is supplanted by multiform processes and constructions, often at first rude and clumsy in comparison to those of the lower instinct, but carried on by the faculty of improvement and new invention into ever higher stages.

Wallace (Natural Selection), " when the first skin was used as a covering, when the first rude spear was formed to assist in the chase, when fire was first used to cook his food, when the first seed was sown or shoot planted, a grand revolution was effected in nature, a revolution which in all the previous ages of the earth's history had had no parallel; for a being had arisen who was no longer necessarily subject to change with the changing universe, - a being who was in some degree superior to nature, inasmuch as he knew how to control and regulate her action, and could keep himself in harmony with her, not by a change in body, but by an advance of mind."

Between 1850 and 1860 French and English geologists were induced to examine into the facts, and found irresistible the evidence that man existed and used rude implements of chipped flint during the Quaternary or Drift period.

First, there are numerous points in the culture even of rude races which are not explicable otherwise than on the theory of development.

Lastly, still following the main lines of human culture, the primitive germs of religious institutions have to be traced in the childish faith and rude rites of savage life, and thence followed in their expansion into the vast systems administered by patriarchs and priests, henceforth taking under their charge the precepts of morality, and enforcing them under divine sanction, while also exercising in political life an authority beside or above the civil law.

The Tasmanian stone implements, figured in the Plate, show their own use when it is noticed that the rude chipping forms. a good hand-grip above, and an effective edge for chopping, sawing, and cutting below.

The earliest recorders of the native social life set down such features as their previous experience of rude civilized life had made them judges of.

Neither Leonardo's genius nor his noble manners could soften the rude and taunting temper of the younger man, whose style as an artist, nevertheless, in subjects both of tenderness and terror, underwent at this time a profound modification from Leonardo's example.

In order to obtain food, they venture naked in small canoes into the treacherous seas; their life is a constant battle with starvation and a rude climate, and their character has become rude and low in consequence.

They speak a rude creole patois, based on French but with a large admixture of Indian, Bantu and English words.

The cause which Bunyan had defended with rude logic and rhetoric against Kiffin and Danvers has since been pleaded by Robert Hall with an ingenuity and eloquence such as no polemical writer has ever surpassed.

There were also rude idols of him in wood (xoana), in which the human form was scarcely recognizable.