Rudeness

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rude \Rude\, a. [Compar. {Ruder}; superl. {Rudest}.] [F., fr. L.
     rudis.]
     1. Characterized by roughness; umpolished; raw; lacking
        delicacy or refinement; coarse.
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              Such gardening tools as art, yet rude, . . . had
              formed.                               --Milton.
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     2. Hence, specifically:
        (a) Unformed by taste or skill; not nicely finished; not
            smoothed or polished; -- said especially of material
            things; as, rude workmanship. "Rude was the cloth."
            --Chaucer.
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                  Rude and unpolished stones.       --Bp.
                                                    Stillingfleet.
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                  The heaven-born child
                  All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.
                                                    --Milton.
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        (b) Of untaught manners; unpolished; of low rank; uncivil;
            clownish; ignorant; raw; unskillful; -- said of
            persons, or of conduct, skill, and the like. "Mine
            ancestors were rude." --Chaucer.
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                  He was but rude in the profession of arms. --Sir
                                                    H. Wotton.
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                  the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
                                                    --Gray.
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        (c) Violent; tumultuous; boisterous; inclement; harsh;
            severe; -- said of the weather, of storms, and the
            like; as, the rude winter.
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                  [Clouds] pushed with winds, rude in their shock.
                                                    --Milton.
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                  The rude agitation [of water] breaks it into
                  foam.                             --Boyle.
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        (d) Barbarous; fierce; bloody; impetuous; -- said of war,
            conflict, and the like; as, the rude shock of armies.
        (e) Not finished or complete; inelegant; lacking
            chasteness or elegance; not in good taste;
            unsatisfactory in mode of treatment; -- said of
            literature, language, style, and the like. "The rude
            Irish books." --Spenser.
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                  Rude am I in my speech.           --Shak.
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                  Unblemished by my rude translation. --Dryden.
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     Syn: Impertinent; rough; uneven; shapeless; unfashioned;
          rugged; artless; unpolished; uncouth; inelegant; rustic;
          coarse; vulgar; clownish; raw; unskillful; untaught;
          illiterate; ignorant; uncivil; impolite; saucy;
          impudent; insolent; surly; currish; churlish; brutal;
          uncivilized; barbarous; savage; violent; fierce;
          tumultuous; turbulent; impetuous; boisterous; harsh;
          inclement; severe. See {Impertiment}.
          [1913 Webster] -- {Rude"ly}, adv. -- {Rude"ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  rudeness
       n 1: a manner that is rude and insulting [syn: {discourtesy}]
            [ant: {courtesy}]
       2: a wild or unrefined state [syn: {crudeness}, {crudity}, {primitiveness},
           {primitivism}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  126 Moby Thesaurus words for "rudeness":
     Gothicism, bad manners, bad taste, barbarism, barbarousness,
     bombasticness, brashness, brassiness, brazenfacedness, brazenness,
     cacology, cacophony, caddishness, callowness, cheekiness,
     clumsiness, coarseness, cockiness, contempt, cracked voice,
     crassness, crudeness, crudity, cumbrousness, derision, discord,
     discourteousness, discourtesy, disrespectfulness, dryness,
     dysphemism, earthiness, face of brass, flippancy, freshness,
     gaudiness, gracelessness, greenness, gross behavior, grossness,
     gruffness, gutturalism, gutturality, gutturalness, harshness,
     heaviness, hoarseness, huskiness, ill breeding, ill manners,
     ill-balanced sentences, immatureness, immaturity, impertinence,
     impoliteness, impropriety, impudence, impurity, incivility,
     inconcinnity, inconsiderateness, incorrectness, indecorousness,
     inelegance, inelegancy, infelicity, insensitivity, inurbanity,
     lack of finish, lack of polish, leadenness, loudness, loutishness,
     mannerlessness, meretriciousness, nondevelopment, obscenity,
     offensiveness, oversimplicity, oversimplification, pompousness,
     ponderousness, poor diction, raspiness, raucity, rawness,
     reductionism, ribaldry, ridicule, roughness, scrapiness,
     scratchiness, sesquipedalianism, sesquipedality, simplism,
     slipshod construction, stertorousness, stiltedness, tactlessness,
     tastelessness, the rough, thickness, throatiness, turgidity,
     ugliness, uncourtliness, uncouthness, uncultivation, undevelopment,
     uneuphoniousness, unfinish, unfinishedness, unfledgedness,
     ungallantness, ungentlemanliness, ungracefulness, ungraciousness,
     unmannerliness, unpoliteness, unrefinement, unripeness,
     unseemliness, unsolicitousness, unwieldiness, vulgarism,
     vulgarity
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  RUDENESS, crim. law. An impolite action; contrary to the usual rules 
  observed in society, committed by one person against another. 
       2. This is a relative term which it is difficult to define: those acts 
  which one friend might do to another, could not be justified by persons 
  altogether unacquainted persons moving in polished society could not be 
  permitted to do to each other, what boatmen, hostlers, and such persons 
  might perhaps justify. 2 Hagg. Eccl. R. 73. An act done by a gentleman 
  towards a lady might be considered rudeness, which, if done by one gentleman 
  to another might not be looked upon in that light. Russ. & Ry. 130. 
       3. A person who touches another with rudeness is guilty of a battery. 
  (q.v.)