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- noun countable and uncountable
Crudeness ; the use of crude language.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Hope you can tolerate a little rudery on your birthday.
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As Dixon points out your comments have upset the Great Gonzo himself and it would be downright rudery to stop now.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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Is this progress, or was Victorian prudery preferable to modern rudery?
Archive 2009-07-19 William Harryman 2009
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Is this progress, or was Victorian prudery preferable to modern rudery?
Buddhism and Sex by M. O'C. Walshe William Harryman 2009
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Hope you can tolerate a little rudery on your birthday.
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Whatever contradictions fueled, or at this time failed to fuel my cartooning, I would have been better throwing in my lot with overt rudery and dysfunction, rather than trying to gain acceptance from the effete mob that ran the New Yorker.
Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006
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But I was an English Jew—that was my dysfunction—and somehow English Jews have had all the rudery squeezed out of them.
Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006
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So there'll be plenty more such rudery coming our way soon, the bottom line never being hard to read.
Evening Standard - Home David Sexton 2011
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The soundtrack is the saving grace of a film that doesn't cut it in any other direction and often gets irritatingly full of boyish rudery and sentimentality.
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(link) I did myself decide a while back that custard was like dullard, an Elizabethan rudery - "oh, you insufferable custard!"
mrissa: fake swears mrissa 2010
whichbe commented on the word rudery
Rudeness; a rude remark, comment, practical joke, etc.
May 13, 2008