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as in disrespect
rude behavior
such rudeness will not be tolerated in this office
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as in crassness
the quality or state of lacking refinement or good taste
the rudeness of frontier life gradually diminished with time
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Recent Examples of rudeness
Everyone stared in silence at the man’s rudeness.
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Lyz Lenz,
Rolling Stone,
28 May 2026
What was His message in turning over the tables, besides showing His rudeness?
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John Kenney,
New Yorker,
23 Apr. 2026
But if there truly is an epidemic of canine defecation in your area, then the solution is not to turn up the rudeness volume, but to appeal to a system or organization that addresses public health or the care of public spaces.
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Judith Martin,
Mercury News,
18 Mar. 2026
But only those who had been woken up without warning with a degree of rudeness would remember this night when their own time came.
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Literary Hub,
20 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for rudeness
Lyz Lenz,
Rolling Stone,
28 May 2026
What was His message in turning over the tables, besides showing His rudeness?
—
John Kenney,
New Yorker,
23 Apr. 2026
But if there truly is an epidemic of canine defecation in your area, then the solution is not to turn up the rudeness volume, but to appeal to a system or organization that addresses public health or the care of public spaces.
—
Judith Martin,
Mercury News,
18 Mar. 2026
But only those who had been woken up without warning with a degree of rudeness would remember this night when their own time came.
—
Literary Hub,
20 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for rudeness
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rudeness
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And there’s no disrespect intended to fellow Hawks draftee Zuby Ejiofor (a 6-foot-7, 245-pound senior who was Big East Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year?
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Now the removal or disrespect for women.
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The result is an aesthetic that skillfully balances a variety of textures, including injecting Shou Sugi Ban custom treatments inspired by Japanese principles of wabi-sabi that typically employ elements of asymmetry, roughness, and simplicity.
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Features such as surface roughness and protruding fibers create more sites where particles can stick to the outer surface rather than passing through.
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That feeling stops, however, when pulling into gas stations or parking lots, where the length and lowness of the car require extreme care to keep the chin from scraping.
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But many seemingly urbane texts also benefited from the intellectual and moral coarseness of their times.
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The term plant texture refers to the fineness or coarseness, roughness or smoothness, heaviness or lightness of a particular plant.
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All your Dad has to do is fill it and drink—the microfilter membrane will do the rest by removing chlorine odors, dirt, bacteria, and any other grossness floating around in there.
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There are no great surprises from here on out, though the sheer, lusty grossness of the fallout is occasionally startling.
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Benoit delights in language as much as her heroine, weaving Regency-era slang throughout and appending a chapter-by-chapter glossary of vulgarities.
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On Monday night, that park seemed so far away as Knicks fans rained vulgarities down on Wembanyama and his teammates inside Madison Square Garden.
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There’s some rudeness, aggressive conversations, and crudeness, but nothing too over the top.
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At the same time, Tacitus points readers to the prevalence and thus the normalization and commonness of this rhetoric, which can become an inseparable corollary of a program of making war.
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The biggest enemy of scientific progress isn’t groupthink at all, despite the commonness of this accusation.
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“Rudeness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rudeness. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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