rudeness

noun

ˈrüd-nəs How to pronounce rudeness (audio)
Definition of rudenessnext
1
as in disrespect
rude behavior such rudeness will not be tolerated in this office

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2
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 Andrew has a long record of rudeness to staff, shouting and swearing at them and going against strict protocol rules over security. — Christina Dugan Ramirez , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 1 June 2026 And as with your grandmother’s ability to counter rudeness with a clever quip, this seemingly innocuous cocktail, too, packs a mighty punch. — Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 14 June 2026 The once-vaunted values of public life are now reduced to the lower standards of private life—venality, vulgarity, rudeness, incontinence, and ignorance. — Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026 Comprising classmates Nilsson, Nutt, James Falconer, Suellen Rocca, Art Green, and Karl Wirsum, the Who held their first exhibition at Chicago’s Hyde Park Art Center in 1966, ushering a new mode of dank, bawdy rudeness into the city’s milieu. — Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 2 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for rudeness
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rudeness
  1. disrespect
  2. roughness
  3. lowness
  4. coarseness
  5. grossness
  6. vulgarity
  7. crudeness
  8. commonness
Noun
  • No disrespect to Meredith Marks, of course, but this Bravo DJ epidemic has gotten out of control.
    — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 2 July 2026
  • Managers frequently mistake flexibility for a weak work ethic, mental health discussions for fragility, transparency for disrespect, and feedback requests for neediness.
    — Mark Murphy, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
Definition of disrespect
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  • The result is an aesthetic that skillfully balances a variety of textures, including injecting Shou Sugi Ban custom treatments inspired by Japanese principles of wabi-sabi that typically employ elements of asymmetry, roughness, and simplicity.
    — Rachel Davies, Architectural Digest, 12 June 2026
  • Features such as surface roughness and protruding fibers create more sites where particles can stick to the outer surface rather than passing through.
    — Sumit Mandal, The Conversation, 9 June 2026
Definition of roughness
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  • That feeling stops, however, when pulling into gas stations or parking lots, where the length and lowness of the car require extreme care to keep the chin from scraping.
    — Byron Hurd, The Drive, 4 Feb. 2026
Definition of lowness
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  • But many seemingly urbane texts also benefited from the intellectual and moral coarseness of their times.
    — Christine Smallwood, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The term plant texture refers to the fineness or coarseness, roughness or smoothness, heaviness or lightness of a particular plant.
    — David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 15 Feb. 2026
Definition of coarseness
Noun
  • All your Dad has to do is fill it and drink—the microfilter membrane will do the rest by removing chlorine odors, dirt, bacteria, and any other grossness floating around in there.
    — Francesca Krempa, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2026
  • There are no great surprises from here on out, though the sheer, lusty grossness of the fallout is occasionally startling.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 16 Apr. 2026
Definition of grossness
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  • The once-vaunted values of public life are now reduced to the lower standards of private life—venality, vulgarity, rudeness, incontinence, and ignorance.
    — Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
  • Benoit delights in language as much as her heroine, weaving Regency-era slang throughout and appending a chapter-by-chapter glossary of vulgarities.
    — Angelina Mazza, Vulture, 19 June 2026
Definition of vulgarity
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  • There’s some rudeness, aggressive conversations, and crudeness, but nothing too over the top.
    — Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 4 Aug. 2025
Definition of crudeness
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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
  • The biggest enemy of scientific progress isn’t groupthink at all, despite the commonness of this accusation.
    — Big Think, Big Think, 30 Oct. 2025
Definition of commonness

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