How to Use rude in a Sentence

rude

adjective

• I can't believe that he was so rude to me.
• I heard someone make a rude noise.
• I was shocked by her rude behavior.
• Which leads me to a point, and a rude one, and a good one.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 4 Dec. 2023
• Still, a few of the rude jokes have a grain of truth buried in them.
  — Beth Thames | [e-mail], al, 4 May 2022
• On the plus side, Finns are too nice to be rude about it.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 24 Jan. 2022
• Frankly, she's been quite rude about the Bridgertons in the past.
  — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 15 May 2024
• Calling off plans at the last minute used to be seen as rude.
  — Alina Dizik, WSJ, 30 May 2022
• Well, now most of those kids are rude and out of control.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2021
• Can’t wait to hear the nasty, rude remarks from the orange one.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2024
• My problem is that, in one area, I️ can’t help but seem rude.
  — Liana Finck, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
• The angry and the rude folks were her specialty, though.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 13 Aug. 2021
• In 1948, four philosophers met in a tea shop to talk about being rude.
  — Mary Townsend, National Review, 15 Sep. 2022
• For a guest to propose adding a guest would, in most cases, be rude.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
• At the same time, try not to be rude because no one likes being told what to do.
  — Maya Mokh, chicagotribune.com, 1 July 2021
• In fact, emerging from a pandemic, the mart-meet looks in rude health.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 2 Dec. 2022
• The quarters was a little sort of street of rude shanties, in a row, in a part of the plantation, far off from the house.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 14 June 2021
• That seemed like a moderately rude thing to say at the time.
  — Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 19 July 2024
• The verdict of viewers online was that the sisters were rude and spoiled.
  — John Jurgensen, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2021
• Putting your feet up Over two-thirds of travelers said that putting your feet against the back of the seat in front of you is rude.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
• In one sense, of course, the rude economic health of the Brazilian game is welcome.
  — New York Times, 20 Aug. 2021
• That was polite – what was about to happen later in the half was much more rude.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2022
• These phrases are not in and of themselves rude or vapid.
  — Miss Manners | Judith Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Apr. 2023
• The rude person on the bus — or the train, or the airplane — has convinced you that ignoring her would be rude.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
• The Tigers were rude hosts, throttling the Wildcats, 89-75, at Mizzou Arena.
  — Ryan Black, The Courier-Journal, 9 Jan. 2024
• That is not an excuse for managers to be rude in return.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
• Season 2 ends with another huge fight, and Mary is rude and sort of racist again.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Feb. 2022
• My manager, the person who hired me, was hostile and rude to me three times in one day.
  — Roxane Gay, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2021
• In fact, it can be considered rude to show up without having confirmed your dish with the host or group.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 7 Oct. 2024
• This should be said with a beatific bridal smile — the sincerity of which Miss Manners hopes your guests will be questioning for the rest of their rude and impertinent lives.
  — Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 4 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024