How to Use rude in a Sentence

rude

adjective

• I can't believe that he was so rude to me.
• I heard someone make a rude noise.
• I was shocked by her rude behavior.
• Which leads me to a point, and a rude one, and a good one.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 4 Dec. 2023
• Calling off plans at the last minute used to be seen as rude.
  — Alina Dizik, WSJ, 30 May 2022
• My problem is that, in one area, I️ can’t help but seem rude.
  — Liana Finck, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
• In 1948, four philosophers met in a tea shop to talk about being rude.
  — Mary Townsend, National Review, 15 Sep. 2022
• In fact, emerging from a pandemic, the mart-meet looks in rude health.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 2 Dec. 2022
• Putting your feet up Over two-thirds of travelers said that putting your feet against the back of the seat in front of you is rude.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
• These phrases are not in and of themselves rude or vapid.
  — Miss Manners | Judith Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Apr. 2023
• The Tigers were rude hosts, throttling the Wildcats, 89-75, at Mizzou Arena.
  — Ryan Black, The Courier-Journal, 9 Jan. 2024
• That is not an excuse for managers to be rude in return.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
• On your end, you are not required to put up with someone being rude to you or putting you down.
  — cleveland, 11 July 2022
• So your co-worker was rude to you or someone cut you off in traffic.
  — Graeme Carey, The New Yorker, 1 July 2022
• Margolyes has been vocal in the past about working with rude actors.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 15 Sep. 2023
• And then you can suddenly, in one night, in the most off-handed or nasty or rude ways, be shot down sometimes.
  — Rob Ledonne, Billboard, 5 Apr. 2023
• Obviously, the term is rude and very smug—in the same vein as the guys who wear One Less Car T-shirts while riding their bike.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 5 July 2023
• Stuffed with rude delights, spry wit and radical fantasy, the movie is a feast.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Sep. 2023
• This way, Miss Manners assures you, they will be suitably forewarned not to be rude again.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2023
• People push them to eat, call them rude for not trying, or leave them out of gatherings around food.
  — Betsy Andrews, Saveur, 14 Feb. 2024
• The rude, off-tune blasts of a boat horn that sounded somewhere between an F and a G-flat could not derail the poise and charm of their performance.
  — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Nov. 2022
• In terms of these TikTok videos, dusty sons don't put the toilet seat down (rude, but not life-changing) and certainly don't dust.
  — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 17 Aug. 2023
• The Grinch is a rude, bitter creature who hates Christmas and wants to ruin it for everyone else.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 5 Dec. 2022
• In the video, Newton - the Heisman Trophy winner from Auburn - appears to heckle a teenage fan with a rude gesture.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 26 July 2023
• The elephant in the O2 Arena felt rude to mention, but dishonest not to: at some point in the past six months, Madonna had gotten the facelift to end all facelifts.
  — Meaghan Garvey, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2023
• Place bubble wrap under an area rug or a bathmat for a rude surprise when a passerby steps down.
  — Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 20 Feb. 2023
• Of course the request seemed rude to Jean—in the sense that all work was an impertinence that placed her days in service to another.
  — Hannah Gold, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
• Sometimes people, without intending to be rude, blurt out the first thing that comes into their heads, and height is hard to miss.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 28 Feb. 2023
• On this day, those Purdue students with that kickoff chant were merely rude.
  — Matthew Glenesk, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Oct. 2022
• The updates could be a rude awakening for some companies.
  — Megan Graham, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024