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- a rude shelter built from unfinished logs by some forgotten pioneer
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- rude stone tools
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- aged,
- ancient,
- antediluvian,
- antiquated,
- antique,
- dated,
- fusty,
- hoary,
- musty,
- obsolete,
- old,
- oldfangled,
- old-fashioned,
- old-time,
- out-of-date,
- outworn,
- passé,
- past,
- quaint,
- unmodernized
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- a comedian who uses a lot of rude language in his nightclub act
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- coarse,
- common,
- crass,
- crude,
- gross,
- ill-bred,
- illiberal
- [archaic],
- incult,
- insensible,
- low,
- lowbred,
- lowbrow,
- raffish,
- rough,
- rough-hewn,
- roughneck,
- rugged,
- tasteless,
- uncouth,
- uncultivated,
- uncultured,
- unpolished,
- unrefined,
- vulgar
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- countrified
- (also countryfied),
- provincial,
- rustic
- (also rustical),
- unsophisticated
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- missionaries who believed that it was their duty to convert the rude peoples of the world
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- barbarian,
- barbaric,
- barbarous,
- heathen,
- heathenish,
- natural,
- Neanderthal
- (or Neandertal),
- savage,
- uncivil,
- uncivilized,
- uncultivated,
- wild
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- it's rude to call someone "ugly"
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- rude hillbillies they might have been, but they produced music with real poignancy
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- rude pelts that were sent to Europe to be fashioned into elegant hats and coats
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“Rude.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rude. Accessed 18 January 2020.
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The first known use of rude was in the 14th century
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