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as in disrespect
rude behavior
such rudeness will not be tolerated in this office
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as in crassness
the quality or state of lacking refinement or good taste
the rudeness of frontier life gradually diminished with time
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Recent Examples of rudeness
If senior figures display rudeness or disrespect, employees may assume that such behavior is acceptable, making selective enforcement seem arbitrary and undermining of trust.
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Andrew Binns, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
The organization sifts through reports of rudeness, terse emails, and snippy interactions, and finds reduced productivity and absenteeism costing companies’ bottom line.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2025
With nearly 400 responses recounting long waits for a check to outright rudeness, customers detailed what pushes them from their usual tipping habits to a complete cutoff.
—Darlin Tillery, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Aug. 2025
There’s some rudeness, aggressive conversations, and crudeness, but nothing too over the top.
—Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 4 Aug. 2025
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Andrew Binns, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
The organization sifts through reports of rudeness, terse emails, and snippy interactions, and finds reduced productivity and absenteeism costing companies’ bottom line.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2025
With nearly 400 responses recounting long waits for a check to outright rudeness, customers detailed what pushes them from their usual tipping habits to a complete cutoff.
—Darlin Tillery, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Aug. 2025
There’s some rudeness, aggressive conversations, and crudeness, but nothing too over the top.
—Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 4 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rudeness
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Accompanying this diagnosis is a sense of disrespect from political elites and Democrats.—
Daniel Yudkin,
The Atlantic,
24 Jan. 2026
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Club Brugge supporters who wore ‘mankinis’ made famous by the satirical character Borat for their team’s Champions League clash against Kairat Almaty on Tuesday have been jailed in Kazakhstan for five days for showing disrespect, Belgian media reported on Thursday.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
23 Jan. 2026
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Over time, turbine blades are exposed to surface roughness due to erosion, oxidation and mechanical wear.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
28 Jan. 2026
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What constitutes pass interference or unnecessary roughness can vary dramatically from one crew to another, and even from quarter to quarter within the same game.—
Steve Forbes,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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There is plenty of coarseness in American arenas totally unrelated to MAGA or Trumpism, of course.—
Sally Jenkins,
The Atlantic,
11 Oct. 2025
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An alkaline compound, baking soda is a non-toxic cleaner with a coarseness that works wonders for scrubbing grime, removing difficult stains, and deodorizing stinky odors.—
Lauren David,
Southern Living,
9 Sep. 2025
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He is charged with open and lewd grossness.—
Flint McColgan,
Boston Herald,
24 Oct. 2025
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In fact, plenty of other things in your home surpass the toilet in terms of grossness.—
Mary Cornetta,
Better Homes & Gardens,
24 Sep. 2025
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The production is known for its humor as much as its vulgarity, and on Thursday night, the Out Front Theatre Company is raising the curtain on the off-Broadway production.—
Monique John,
CBS News,
29 Jan. 2026
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With its insistent, obsessive patter, not to mention its unrelenting commitment to in-your-face vulgarity, Sherman’s comedy is hardly for everyone.—
Naomi Fry,
New Yorker,
6 Dec. 2025
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There’s some rudeness, aggressive conversations, and crudeness, but nothing too over the top.—
Lynnette Nicholas,
Parents,
4 Aug. 2025
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At the same time, Tacitus points readers to the prevalence and thus the normalization and commonness of this rhetoric, which can become an inseparable corollary of a program of making war.—
Timothy Joseph,
The Conversation,
21 Jan. 2026
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The biggest enemy of scientific progress isn’t groupthink at all, despite the commonness of this accusation.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Rudeness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rudeness. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.
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