rude
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His name is destined to become a rude punchline or be completely forgotten.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026
"Worrying", "freefall" and "rude awakening" were all bandied around in the immediate aftermath of the club's heaviest ever two-legged European defeat as new boss Wouter Vrankcen's tenure got off to a rocky start.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
This made him angry and he called her rude and lazy, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Brazil’s foreign minister, Mauro Vieira, called Rubio’s comments “a rude and arrogant attack.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
“You know,” Jack says, “I’ve been told many times that I’m eerily beautiful, but even so, it’s rude to stare.”
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
The Pew survey found that just under half of U.S. adults polled — 47% — said the way people behave in public these days is ruder than before the pandemic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2025
Slot's team could not be in ruder health, with the head coach calmly steering them.
From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2024
Nothing is ruder than a guest who is constantly checking emails or making private phone calls.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 2023
But his vision of it as a ruder, rawer, freer place is as uninteresting as it is inconsequential.
From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2022
So Garth’s rude noises got louder and even ruder.
From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney
It’s that they’ve done it by transforming into the rudest, most hard-hitting, trash-talking team in professional basketball.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
It was a rude speech, maybe the rudest by a national leader in Davos history.
From Slate ● Jan. 21, 2026
If there was hope, and belief, that this type of performance was maybe behind them, then this was the rudest of rude awakenings.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2025
The rudest, most disrespectful tweets garner eight times as many likes and ten times as many retweets as civil ones.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2022
I’m sitting in math, and the teacher has this loose sole on his shoe, and every time he takes a step it makes the rudest noise you ever heard.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
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