1 in a way that shows a lack of respect for other people and their feelings:
They brushed rudely past us. * 'What do you want?' she asked rudely. * He waved her rudely away.
2 in a way that is sudden, unpleasant and unexpected:
I was rudely awakened by the phone ringing. * As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted...
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for rudely is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is rudely a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, rudely is tagged as adverb.
Does rudely appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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