rude
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Only instead of just peacefully apprehending opponents, Doncic’s super-competitive alter ego wants to smash them all under an array of increasingly rude step-back jumpers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
Talking on the phone in public is rude.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
So you’re not only rude, you’re also a liar.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026
Some experts have also posited that being rude to AI chatbots could adversely impact human communication, by seeping into how we talk to and treat others.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Well, if this had been big-headed Calvin Faribault, who thinks he’s too fine for his own reflection, I would say he was being beyond rude.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
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
Giving evidence to the inquiry on Tuesday, Mr Cummings accepted his language was "deplorable" but denied he had been misogynistic, adding: "I was much ruder about men."
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2023
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
‘Because,’ Sophie said, blushing a little, ‘if they go down instead of up, they’ll be coming out somewhere else with an even louder and ruder noise.’
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
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
Siwa and Bure were previously embroiled in drama, after the former "Dance Moms" star called Bure the "rudest celebrity I've met" in a July TikTok.
From Salon ● Nov. 15, 2022
“Is this not just the rudest thing you’ve ever heard of?”
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
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