(superl.) Characterized by roughness; umpolished; raw; lacking delicacy or refinement; coarse.
(superl.) Unformed by taste or skill; not nicely finished; not smoothed or polished; -- said especially of material things; as, rude workmanship.
(superl.) Of untaught manners; unpolished; of low rank; uncivil; clownish; ignorant; raw; unskillful; -- said of persons, or of conduct, skill, and the like.
(superl.) Violent; tumultuous; boisterous; inclement; harsh; severe; -- said of the weather, of storms, and the like; as, the rude winter.
(superl.) Barbarous; fierce; bloody; impetuous; -- said of war, conflict, and the like; as, the rude shock of armies.
(superl.) Not finished or complete; inelegant; lacking chasteness or elegance; not in good taste; unsatisfactory in mode of treatment; -- said of literature, language, style, and the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) You need a little moleskine, to write rude ideas... Mel No, I’ve just started recycling them.
(2) I categorically never said that ‘Britain has so many paedophiles because it has so many Asian men’.” She added that it was “totally untrue” that she had threatened to “take this inquiry down with me”, and absolutely rejected being rude and abusive to junior staff.
(3) For a while yesterday, Hazel Blears's selfishly-timed resignation with her rude "rock the boat" brooch send shudders of revulsion through some in the party.
(4) Like low blood pressure after a heart attack, then, cheap oil should arguably be regarded not as a sign of rude health, but rather as a consequence of malaise.
(5) This country has had a free press for the last 300 years, that has been irreverent and rude as my website is and holding public officials to account.
(6) We had some memorable encounters and he was very rude to me.
(7) He privately told the privy counsellors' committee of inquiry set up to review the events leading up to the invasion: "If I may be very frank and rather rude, you had to keep the ball in the air with the Argentines.
(8) There will be dialogue and discussions about what works, rather than rude surprises that backfire.
(9) As Google states, it is definitely in the company’s best interest to get its first smartglass customers to behave, as “breaking the rules or being rude will not get businesses excited about Glass and will ruin it for other Explorers”.
(10) I think, in all honestly, if I could be Bradley Whitford I would be very, very happy.” He becomes almost drawlingly dreamy, rolling his “r”s as he leans against the warm oolite cliffs of this Jurassic Coast, until rudely interrupted by me, asking whether there’s talk of a Broadchurch 3 .
(11) If someone was rude to you, you were rude back to them.
(12) Brexiters face rude awakening on immigration, says ex-minister Read more The problem is, there is nothing on the horizon to suggest that achieving any significant reduction in immigration is achievable or even desirable.
(13) He repeatedly argued that his south London upbringing meant he was rude to people who were rude to him and said Jones needed to “get over it”, although he said that he was unaware of his colleague’s history of illness.
(14) When he sees what he's inherited, he may get a rude awakening.
(15) Having reassured ourselves that we’re justified in “holding them to account” and “having robust debates” and “speaking truth to power”, we’re now just flat-out rude to their faces?
(16) But the fact that there is a serious disagreement between Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom does not mean that you should then be discourteous or rude."
(17) I said to them afterwards: ‘If you’re not on it 100% in this league, you’ll get a rude awakening.’’” Albion must be sick of the sight of QPR and Charlie Austin in particular.
(18) I can think of hordes of politicians who look worse and "weirder", with wet little pouty-mouths, strange shiny skin, mad glaring eyes, deathly pale demeanour, blank gaze and an unhealthy quantity of fat (I can't name them, because it's rude to make personal remarks), and I don't hear anyone calling them "weird", or mocking their looks, except for the odd bold cartoonist, but when it comes to Miliband , it's be-as-rude-as-you-like time.
(19) She said something rude, and I picked up her arm and I bit it!
(20) So instead of asking for anything on her birthday, she gives her friends presents, and she regularly sticks bullies and rude policemen in trees.
Unkind
Definition:
(a.) Having no race or kindred; childless.
(a.) Not kind; contrary to nature, or the law of kind or kindred; unnatural.
(a.) Wanting in kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or the like; cruel; harsh; unjust; ungrateful.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clearly, therefore, image is everything, especially in a world that can still be unkind to geeky people venturing out in public wearing their latest invention.
(2) You know, I don't mean to be unkind but I think you should put your phone down because you're just being a dick, really, just enjoy the gig because it's a better … it's a dick job, filming the show.
(3) Somehow, British zoos still enjoy a protected, deeply forgiving space, in a nation of pet lovers, for manifest unkindness towards animals.
(4) Mottling of teeth can have significant psychological impact on patients--particularly on adolescents, who may be subjected to much unkind teasing.
(5) This agenda might unkindly be described as systematic anti-liberalism with a seasoning of resentment and paranoia.
(6) The place to go in parliament for unkind evaluations of Miliband’s legacy is the Labour benches.
(7) But sometimes the revelations come fast, and when they do, they are usually particularly unkind.
(8) But clearly results have been immeasurably more crushing and unkind than I could ever have feared.
(9) I'd forgotten quite how swathey it was, rather unkindly imagining literary novelists and Big Thinkers in stripped-pine north London would be over-represented.
(10) And while Özil is allowed to have a poor game, it is hard to block out the memory of those unkind whispers on his departure from Madrid about his conditioning and stamina.
(11) Irony Steven Friedman , director of Rhodes and Johannesburg universities, said: "It has to be said that one of the great ironies of the debates about how we should receive Barack Obama is that, while a lot of South Africans are very sympathetic to him because he's the first African-American president, "I don't think that it's unkind to say that he's done absolutely nothing for this continent.
(12) I got to know him quite well after that and never once did I see him being unkind or inconsiderate to people.
(13) The academic Steve Bruce once unkindly stated: "When Ulster Protestants talk about being British, it is clear that the Britain they have in mind is no more recent than the 1950s, and often their points of reference are positively Victorian."
(14) Unkind though it is to remind him of his own cruel witticism aimed at Gordon Brown when he was at his weakest, there is now more than something of Mr Bean about Dr Cable.
(15) If modern life is unkind to our mental health, it’s no doubt in part because so many young people fear that admission of vulnerability will affect their employment, or their relationships, at a time when their futures are already far less clear than those of their parents.
(16) The results of this study lend weight to the argument that those who wish to have their facial abnormalities reduced may be accurately reporting that society is unkind to them.
(17) History tends to be unkind to those who embrace the evil practices of those they once denounced.
(18) Ruben Loftus-Cheek provided the visitors’ second, sliding a pass through the centre for Oscar to collect before McFadzean was aware of his presence, the finish crisply clipped into the far corner from an unkind angle.
(19) The crime also inspired a Bollywood film – on which MacKeown was never consulted, but later said “was not unkind” in its depiction of her daughter.
(20) On Thursday, as one SNP fundraising leaflet unkindly but accurately put it, the party has a chance to “complete the set”, making it the dominant force in all areas of Scotland’s political life.