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
So you’re not only rude, you’re also a liar.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026
The loss to Oregon last season served as a rude awakening for USC and Maiava, a reminder of how far both still had to go before reaching their potential.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 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
“It’s rude to interrupt, darling,” the empty face said.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
The actual phrasing he used was far ruder than that – but you get the drift.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Two in 10 said today’s behavior is a lot ruder.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2025
It’s hard to see what’s ruder than the way we’re trashing it with our vainglorious Seattle neglect.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2023
They talk the way real people talk, but they’re freer, ruder, funnier.
From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2023
The Army offered us rations, which gettings Sip and I could not refuse; and so we repaired to the city gates, where our fiddlers’ fingers took to ruder labor.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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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