rude

See definition of rude on Dictionary.com

adj.disrespectful, rough

adj.crude, primitive
adj.sudden; approximate

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Many synonyms of rude suggest a violation of manners or propriety, including
impolite, bad-mannered, ill-mannered, mannerless, unmannerly, and discourteous.

A word that suggests that a person doesn’t know how to interact with others—or doesn’t care how they do—is tactless.

Words that suggest a more active, deliberate rudeness are disrespectful, insolent, and impertinent.

People who are overly blunt or aggressive might be described as brash, brusque, crude, or boorish.

The word uncivil implies that someone is behaving in a way that ignores common courtesy.

A generally rude person might be called a jerk (or worse names).

Rude can also describe something that is crudely made. The word crude can also be used as a synonym of this sense.

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The protesters were asked to leave “after they removed their masks and became disruptive and rude to other shoppers,” she said.

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The pandemic has given some businesses a rude awakening about their dependence on China.

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When they’re citing this statute, or a disorderly conduct statute, what they’re really getting citations for is people being rude to cops in the eyes of a police officer.

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So my question is a very rude one, and I ask your forgiveness in advance.

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Smoking, the angry and fuming king protests, had made our manners as rude as those of the fish-wives of Dieppe.

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There appears a rude attempt to picture the mouth cavity and to show those interesting accessories, the teeth.

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Many of them however are of rude workmanship and might have been fashioned by some of the tribe unacquainted with pipe-making.

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La saison estoit rude, & les vents le plus souvent contraires.

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On the upper part of each of these posts was a rude carving of a hideous human face with prominent teeth.