rude
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So you’re not only rude, you’re also a liar.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026
The most elaborately staged, and very funny, scene is one in which Ha-Chan and Fedir are out walking when they get bumped into by a small group of rude businessmen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
But the Chargers’ new offensive coordinator knows his unit must show urgency and improvement Sunday against the Las Vegas Raiders after a rude wake-up call in the season opener.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Royal commentator Jenny Bond described it as a "fantastically hostile, absolutely rude book... it's a very unpleasant portrayal of a man - but it's his memory of it, and who knows who's right?"
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
“That was rude of me to assume you’d learned it here.”
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
The actual phrasing he used was far ruder than that – but you get the drift.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Is it any surprise, then, that America has gotten ruder?
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2025
Nothing is ruder than a guest who is constantly checking emails or making private phone calls.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 2023
They talk the way real people talk, but they’re freer, ruder, funnier.
From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2023
John closed the door behind him and stood in the narrow church aisle, hearing behind him the voices of children playing, and ruder voices, the voices of their elders, cursing and crying in the streets.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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
Then suddenly the heavens opened and he let fly with a series of the loudest and rudest noises Sophie had ever heard in her life.
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
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