For those people who have known me awhile, this will come to you as no surprise: I LOVE THE DICTIONARY!! I have read the Oxford Encyclopedic Dictionary (1991 Edition) cover to cover nearly 20 times, Tim and I use dictionary.com when we play scrabble (I know you not supposed to do that, but when you have 2 V's and 2 Z's you need a hand!) and sometimes when I am bored, I just look up words and their synonyms!
Lately while going through my day to day life, my dictionary studies have flooded my mind. While a lot of people 'know' what words mean, they don't understand what they mean. So, to help people out, I thought I would put up 2 definitions and explain them out. The two words I picked have been flooding my conversations and internal thoughts for a LONG time now....
RUDE – adjective, rud⋅er, rud⋅est.
1.
| discourteous or impolite, esp. in a deliberate way: a rude reply.
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2.
| without culture, learning, or refinement: rude, illiterate peasants.
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3.
| rough in manners or behavior; unmannerly; uncouth.
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4.
| rough, harsh, or ungentle: rude hands.
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5.
| roughly wrought, built, or formed; of a crude construction or kind: a rude cottage.
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6.
| not properly or fully developed; raw; unevolved: a rude first stage of development.
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7.
| harsh to the ear: rude sounds.
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8.
| without artistic elegance; of a primitive simplicity: a rude design.
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9.
| violent or tempestuous, as the waves.
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10.
| robust, sturdy, or vigorous: rude strength.
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11.
| approximate or tentative: a rude first calculation of costs.
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Synonyms:
1. uncivil, unmannerly, curt, brusque, impertinent, impudent, saucy, pert, fresh. 2. unrefined, uncultured, uncivilized, uncouth, coarse, vulgar, rough. 3. stormy, fierce, tumultuous, turbulent.
No one WANTS to be rude. It makes people not like you. It pushes people away. And most of all you lose respect from people you REALLY want it from.
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HYPOCRISY – noun, plural -sies.
1.
| a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.
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2.
| a pretense of having some desirable or publicly approved attitude.
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3.
| an act or instance of hypocrisy.
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Synonyms:
1. Deceit
One of the most irritating things in this world is when people say how perfect they are, yet they have done 5 awful things that week. IMHO this is just another way to be rude.
Maybe it's just me, but I hate how much the world is changing. I hate how "me me me" everyone is, and I hate how 'the village' has disappeared and how "the island" has taken over. I really wish that people would realize how much their actions effect all of those around them!! Who knows, maybe with my little English language lesson, I've helped people understand their actions! - lol - I think that is VERY wishful thinking on my part!!
