1
: the quality or state of being rude
2
: a rude action
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Examples of rudeness in a Sentence
such rudeness will not be tolerated in this office
the rudeness of frontier life gradually diminished with time
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The Contrary Journalist: Lady Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake One of the sharpest female journalists of Britain’s Victorian era, Eastlake considered Jane Eyre an exercise in rudeness and vulgarity.
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JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
Dealing with rudeness can nudge you toward cognitive errors.
—Big Think, 24 June 2024
Unfriendly service staff at restaurants, once viewed as a charming hallmark of visiting Hong Kong, has increasingly been described as a turn-off for tourists, while rudeness topped the list of complaints about the city’s taxi industry in a survey last year.
—Chad De Guzman, TIME, 5 June 2024
For younger artists, hip-hop remains an art form about the messy struggle for survival—but Cole’s surrender suggests an approach with less fire, less rudeness, less competitive excellence.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2024
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JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
Dealing with rudeness can nudge you toward cognitive errors.
—Big Think, 24 June 2024
Unfriendly service staff at restaurants, once viewed as a charming hallmark of visiting Hong Kong, has increasingly been described as a turn-off for tourists, while rudeness topped the list of complaints about the city’s taxi industry in a survey last year.
—Chad De Guzman, TIME, 5 June 2024
For younger artists, hip-hop remains an art form about the messy struggle for survival—but Cole’s surrender suggests an approach with less fire, less rudeness, less competitive excellence.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2024
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“Rudeness.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rudeness. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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