<adj.all> want nothing from you but to get away from your uncivil tongue
socially incorrect in behavior
<adj.all> resentment flared at such an unmannered intrusion
(of persons) lacking in refinement or grace
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(used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes
<adj.all> natural yogurt natural produce raw wool raw sugar bales of rude cotton
belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness
<adj.all> the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man primitive movies of the 1890s primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains
Rude \Rude\, a. [Compar. {Ruder}; superl. {Rudest}.] [F., fr. L. rudis.] 1. Characterized by roughness; umpolished; raw; lacking delicacy or refinement; coarse.
Such gardening tools as art, yet rude, . . . had formed. --Milton.
2. Hence, specifically: (a) Unformed by taste or skill; not nicely finished; not smoothed or polished; -- said especially of material things; as, rude workmanship. ``Rude was the cloth.'' --Chaucer.
Rude and unpolished stones. --Bp. Stillingfleet.
The heaven-born child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies. --Milton. (b) Of untaught manners; unpolished; of low rank; uncivil; clownish; ignorant; raw; unskillful; -- said of persons, or of conduct, skill, and the like. ``Mine ancestors were rude.'' --Chaucer.
He was but rude in the profession of arms. --Sir H. Wotton.
the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. --Gray. (c) Violent; tumultuous; boisterous; inclement; harsh; severe; -- said of the weather, of storms, and the like; as, the rude winter.
[Clouds] pushed with winds, rude in their shock. --Milton.
The rude agitation [of water] breaks it into foam. --Boyle. (d) Barbarous; fierce; bloody; impetuous; -- said of war, conflict, and the like; as, the rude shock of armies. (e) 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. ``The rude Irish books.'' --Spenser.
Where we expect some fairly rude braying and chugging, the Stravinsky was svelteness and light.
Germans in the brigade find French officers downright rude at times, while French find German officers long-winded in their politeness. But by far the biggest point of contact between the two countries is, of course, business.
The wines are rude and astringent now, difficult to taste, but in 10 years time they will be marvelous.
Businessmen, laborers, and students who have never thrown a firebomb are heard to complain that South Korea is victimized by unfair trade pressures and rude, Yankee arrogance.
Meanwhile, a handful of other fund holders face a rude awakening concerning so-called phantom income tax.
It is rude to turn up late because it inconveniences the person you are meeting.
The Bundesbank's admission that it has spent DM60bn in intervention during the recent turmoil is a rude reminder of the scale of short-term capital flows in a world largely free of exchange controls.
Does your wife attend art classes, only to pick up rude painters who act as if they know her better than you do?
On the air, rude questions are definitely out of order.
This became the vehicle for the directors' retention of a controlling interest in the expanding company. Described by the company's historian as a 'fireball', Whitbread could be impatient and rude.
So no more rude suggestions, please, that CSO boss Bill Maclennan may have failed to meet his performance targets.
But there in bold and no uncertain print it says it is not rude.
Why are they so rude?' This year, FIND - initiated as a biannual event in 1985 but, since 1991, presented every autumn - decided to turn the spotlight on British choreographers.
He also offers a well observed portrait of Jobs, who emerges as 'insanely great', rude, arrogant, self-absorbed and sometimes fatally inattentive to detail or the work of others. Yet Jobs was also as a kind of prophet.
They were rude to me in the airport, even before I had passed through immigration and they were especially rude at the Boulevard Hotel.
They were rude to me in the airport, even before I had passed through immigration and they were especially rude at the Boulevard Hotel.
"Hitler was in a crude and rude and aggressive mood _ a very unattractive character," the British statesman Lord Home, who accompanied Chamberlain as his aide, said in a recent interview with The Associated Press at his estate in Scotland.
To this rude northern capital, the great emperor brought several of San Vitale's marble columns and statues.
With everything going so smoothly, the departure of Mr. Diller came as a rude surprise to investors.
In fact, they maintain, investors in the securities markets have drifted into a dream world that could be setting them up for another rude shock.
Elderly people screamed at students, calling them rude and arrogant.
Much of this treatment is to punish the son for having been rude to his grandmother.
Some East Germans see Western visitors as brash, rude people who like to show off their wealth, and view themselves as humbler folk not consumed by greed.
Reporters can be rude when they don't like what they hear, Kenny says.
But some have reportedly taken offense at a scene in which Kobori releases an American prisoner of war, as well as depictions of Japanese soldiers as lax and rude.
In an interview published Nov. 13 in the Los Angeles Times _ prior to the announcement of another encounter with the Soviet first lady, Mrs. Reagan was asked if she found Mrs. Gorbachev to be rude.
Another senior quoted by the newspaper complained that the proctors "were really rude."
The rest of the show _ produced by campmeister Allan Carr _ was so rude that when the curtain finally fell, 17 industry figures pounded out an angry note to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
There is a no-drinking, no-smoking family section for fans who want to be isolated from "immature and rude behavior," a Giants spokeswoman says.
It is understandable that he should object to having a wife foisted on him by the King of France, but that is no reason why he should be so grotesquely rude to her.