rude (adj.)
violent, harsh, unkind
1H4 I.i.41[Westmorland to King Henry] Mortimer ... / Was by the rude hands of that Welshman [Glendower] taken [or: uncivilised]
2H4 I.i.159[Northumberland to Morton] each heart being set / On bloody courses, the rude scene may end
2H6 IV.iv.33[First Messenger to King, of Cade] His army is a ragged multitude / Of hinds and peasants, rude and merciless
AW III.ii.81[Countess to Lords, of Helena and Bertram] she deserves a lord / That twenty such rude boys might tend upon [or: amateurish]
AYL II.vii.180[Amiens singing, of the winter wind] Although thy breath be rude
AYL IV.iii.35[Rosalind as Ganymede to Silvius, of Phebe's letter to Ganymede] such giant rude invention
CE V.i.358[Abbess to Duke] rude fishermen of Corinth / By force took Dromio and my son
Ham III.iv.41.1[Gertrude to Hamlet] thou darest wag thy tongue / In noise so rude against me
KJ IV.ii.240[King John to Hubert, of killing Arthur] didst let ... thy rude hand to act
KJ V.iv.11[Melun to Pembroke, Salisbury, and Bigot] Unthread the rude eye of rebellion [i.e. retrace your steps]
LLL III.i.66[Armado alone] Most rude melancholy, valour gives thee place
MV III.v.77[Jessica to Lorenzo, of Portia] the poor rude world / Hath not her fellow
R2 V.ii.5[Duchess of York to York] rude misgoverned hands from windows' tops / Threw dust and rubbish on King Richard's head
R2 V.v.105[Richard to Servant] What means death in this rude assault?
RJ III.i.189[Prince to Montague] My blood for your rude brawls doth lie a-bleeding
Sonn.129.4[of lust] Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust
TC I.iii.115[Ulysses to all] the rude son should strike his father dead
TC IV.iv.40[Troilus to Cressida, of buying each other with a thousand sighs] We ... must poorly sell ourselves / With the rude brevity and discharge of one [i.e. one sigh]
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