Meaning of rudery | Babel Free

Definitions

Crudeness; the use of crude language.

countable, uncountable, usually

Examples

“1992, Jeremy Isaacs, quoted in John Hartley, Tele-ology: Studies in Television, page 67, But if people try⟳ to blow⟳ the transmitters by their rudery they are going to make⟳ life very difficult for themselves and for the Channel.”

“Whatever contradictions fuelled, 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.”

“The other children loved his nickname and were now able to share⟳ the ruderies they didn′t dare read⟳ out in the French lesson.”

“All of which is confirmed by Lockhart′s attack on Hunt′s pantheon: Voltaire (French, and therefore renowned for licentiousness), Chaucer (whose work⟳ was full of ruderies), John Buncle (the story of an amorous Unitarian) and Launcelot of the Lake (about a morally questionable liaison).”

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