rude
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His name is destined to become a rude punchline or be completely forgotten.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026
Workers say they encounter rude or mentally unstable people and an unfortunate amount of human waste and vomit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
“RSVP as early as possible, be honest without being rude, and be clear that you won’t be attending rather than acting noncommittal and ultimately sending a last-minute ‘no’ anyway.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
His feed is packed with public health information, but also with bitter feuds - including with celebrities - conducted in a style many describe as rude.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
“Then why were you being rude to him?”
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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
Her live routine is also "a lot ruder", she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2022
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
Siwa and Bure were previously embroiled in drama, after the former "Dance Moms" star called Bure the "rudest celebrity I've met" in a July TikTok.
From Salon ● Nov. 15, 2022
“That was the rudest one ever. It basically tried to kill us with halitosis.”
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
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