adjective
- Socially incorrect in behavior.
- usage: "resentment flared at such an unmannered intrusion"
- synonyms: ill-mannered, bad-mannered, unmannered, unmannerly
- Of persons. ( lacking in refinement or grace)
- synonyms: ill-bred, bounderish, lowbred, underbred, yokelish
- Lacking civility or good manners."want nothing from you but to get away from your uncivil tongue- Willa Cather
- synonyms: uncivil
- Used especially of commodities. ( being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes)
- usage: "natural yogurt"; "natural produce"; "raw wool"; "raw sugar"; "bales of rude cotton"
- Belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness.
- usage: "the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains"
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