(Of persons) lacking in refinement or grace.
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Examples for "rude "
Examples for "rude "
1 It's really rude . It wasn't the first time Bono has said sorry.
2 He pointed in turn to the rude ornamentation in the shell clasp.
3 It is possible, of course, that she was just being plain rude .
4 Haven't I watched Kate field this question from hundreds of rude people?
5 This unreasonable speculation is a rude contempt toward Chinese law, it said.
1 The characteristics of the ill-bred man are just the contrary of these.
2 It makes one appear to be ill-bred and extremely distasteful in society.
3 They were the most ill - bred of mankind-theservant caste-madeslaves by nature.
4 He is singularly stupid and ill-bred to meddle in such a matter.
5 Paul felt for the instant that he had been brutal and ill-bred .
1 She pronounced the quiet little painter a pert, little, obtrusive, underbred creature.
2 What he was doing, he told himself, was extremely ungentlemanly, horribly underbred .
3 No timidity or prudery or underbred doubts about this thorough creature.
4 It was, somehow, so underbred to owe money to all sorts of people.
5 They seem to me to be underbred , of a different sort.
1 "No, thanks," said Josh, in his most bustlingly - bounderish manner.
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