Crossword clues for ruder
ruder
- Not as genteel
- More uncouth
- More primitive
- More likely to get slapped
- More disrespectful
- More crass
- Less mannerly
- Less genteel
- Showing less refinement
- More likely to interrupt someone
- More likely to butt in, say
- More like a cad
- More like a boor
- More insulting
- More inclined to butt in
- More ill-bred
- More apt to get slapped
- More abrupt
- Less tactful
- Less polite
- More boorish
- Less civilized
- Less refined
- Not so civil
- More uncivil
- More impolite
- More impudent
- More of a boor
- Not so delicate
- Less courteous
- Not so polite
- More insolent
- One sorry about daughter being less well-developed
- Less couth
- More ill-mannered
- More arrogant
- Less respectful
- Not as refined
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rude \Rude\, a. [Compar. Ruder; superl. Rudest.] [F., fr. L. rudis.]
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Characterized by roughness; umpolished; raw; lacking delicacy or refinement; coarse.
Such gardening tools as art, yet rude, . . . had formed.
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Hence, specifically:
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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.
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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.
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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. Barbarous; fierce; bloody; impetuous; -- said of war, conflict, and the like; as, the rude shock of armies.
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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.Rude am I in my speech.
--Shak.Unblemished by my rude translation.
--Dryden.Syn: Impertinent; rough; uneven; shapeless; unfashioned; rugged; artless; unpolished; uncouth; inelegant; rustic; coarse; vulgar; clownish; raw; unskillful; untaught; illiterate; ignorant; uncivil; impolite; saucy; impudent; insolent; surly; currish; churlish; brutal; uncivilized; barbarous; savage; violent; fierce; tumultuous; turbulent; impetuous; boisterous; harsh; inclement; severe. See Impertiment. [1913 Webster] -- Rude"ly, adv. -- Rude"ness, n.
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Wiktionary
a. (en-comparative of: rude)
Wikipedia
Ruder may refer to:
- David Sturtevant Ruder (born 1929), the William W. Gurley Memorial Professor of Law Emeritus at Northwestern University School of Law
- Emil Ruder (1914–1970), Swiss typographer, graphic designer, co-founder of the Basel School of Design
- Gardy Ruder (born 1954), German author and teacher who is now based in Baden-Württemberg
- William Ruder, American public relations executive and co-founder of Ruder Finn with David Finn
Usage examples of "ruder".
In response, Ruder blew the head off a man wearing a moly-weave vest, and Ehrenreich followed suit.
The Europeans of the ruder ages consumed more spices in their meat and drink than is compatible with the delicacy of a modern palate.
A large bed, or rather dormitory of dried leaves and the stalks of Indian corn, was strewed along one side of the room, on which many both men and women lay, peeping out on the travellers from under their sheep skin coverings: there was no furniture, except a rude bench, and a ruder table.
In the ruder courts of London or Paris he had never seen so much splendour and luxury: he cast an involuntary glance on his own habiliments, which although rich were soiled by travelling, and in their best days could not have vied with the meanest dress worn by these nobles.
Their ways were ruder and more primitively Hyborian than those of the Aquilonians, and their main concession to the ways of their more civilized southern neighbors was the adoption of the god Mitra in place of the primitive Bori - a worship to which they returned, however, upon the fall of Aquilonia.
Twenty-eight--,” Mike interrupted -and a telepathic interruption is ruder than any other kind, I think.
Mike interrupted -and a telepathic interruption is ruder than any other kind, I think.