Search for crossword answers and clues

Answer for the clue "In need of a slap ", 4 letters:
rude

Alternative clues for the word rude

Word definitions for rude in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Rude is a 1995 Canadian crime film directed by Clement Virgo . It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival .

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., "coarse, rough" (of surfaces), from Old French ruide (13c.) or directly from Latin rudis "rough, crude, unlearned," perhaps related to rudus "rubble." Sense of "ill-mannered, uncultured; uneducated, uncultured" is from mid-14c. Rude boy (also ...

Usage examples of rude.

Such a conception, appearing in a rude state of culture, before the lines between science, religion, and poetry had been sharply drawn, recommending itself alike by its simplicity and by its adaptedness to gratify curiosity and speculation in the formation of a thousand quaint and engaging hypotheses, would seem plausible, would be highly attractive, would very easily secure acceptance as a true doctrine.

At last he had given his grievance an airing, and compared with his previous treatment rude letters, curt telephone calls, and ignored requests for information smooth evasions were a decided improvement.

In this rude and informal court the alcalde not only acted as judge, but also examined all witnesses.

They saw every one round them sharing the same lot, enduring the same hardships, feeding on the same aliments, arrayed in the same rude garments.

An Innocent Amourette One feels almost brutally rude in breaking in upon the privacy of this little romance.

In Bideford Ana would have been expected to give a little of herself back to the assistant, whether she liked it or not, just so as not to be thought rude.

Scholastica avenged me by reproaching her for having obliged me to appear either rude or jealous, or a breaker of my word.

In Ireland, it was still more requisite, among a rude people, not yet thoroughly subdued, averse to the religion and manners of their conquerors, ready on all occasions to relapse into rebellion and disorder.

The invasion of the Infernal plane had come as the rudest shock of all, and now this bothersome banditry, forcing his hand to acts of repression before he was ready to introduce them.

She spoke the rude French of the fishing villages, where the language lives chiefly as a baragouin, mingled often with words and forms belonging to many other tongues.

Then came archers of the guard, shrill-voiced women of the camp, English pages with their fair skins and blue wondering eyes, dark-robed friars, lounging men-at-arms, swarthy loud-tongued Gascon serving-men, seamen from the river, rude peasants of the Medoc, and becloaked and befeathered squires of the court, all jostling and pushing in an ever-changing, many-colored stream, while English, French, Welsh, Basque, and the varied dialects of Gascony and Guienne filled the air with their babel.

The article bemoaned the youth of today as largely rude and selfish, with little perseverance or inclination for hard work.

And when he created his first biocomputer with high recognition capabilities, he had used a rude form of this kind of parallel reasoning.

And Percy carelessly picked up a stick and started chewing the end of it, his head on one side and his wicked big eyes pausing to gaze at Blinky in a cold rude manner.

From May through September the Fianna lived off the land, wandering, hunting, building rude bothies in the forests of Eire.