Antonyms for rudenessrude·ness

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1. rudeness

   Impertinence primarily denotes what does not pertain or belong to the occasion or the person, and hence comes to signify interference by word or act not consistent with the age, position, or relation of the person interfered with or of the one who interferes; especially, forward, presumptuous, or meddlesome speech. Impudence is shameless impertinence. What would be arrogance in a superior becomes impertinence or impudence in an inferior. Impertinence has less of intent and determination than impudence. We speak of thoughtless impertinence, shameless impudence. Insolence is literally that which is against custom, i. e., the violation of customary respect and courtesy. Officiousness is thrusting upon others unasked and undesired service, and is often as well-meant as it is annoying. Rudeness is the behavior that might be expected from a thoroughly uncultured person, and may be either deliberate and insulting or unintentional and even unconscious. Compare ARROGANCE; ASSURANCE; EFFRONTERY; PERTNESS.

   Antonyms:
   bashfulness, coyness, diffidence, humility, lowliness, meekness, modesty, submissiveness

   Synonyms:
   assurance, boldness, effrontery, forwardness, impertinence, impudence, incivility, insolence, intrusiveness, officiousness, pertness, presumption, sauciness

   Preposition:
   The impudence of, or impudence from, a subordinate to a superior.

Matched Categories

1. • Manner

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. discourtesy, rudenessnoun

   a manner that is rude and insulting

   Synonyms:
   offense, primitivism, crudeness, discourtesy, disrespect, crudity, offensive activity, primitiveness, offence

2. crudeness, crudity, primitiveness, primitivism, rudenessnoun

   a wild or unrefined state

   Synonyms:
   gaucheness, primitivism, crudeness, discourtesy, crudity, primitiveness, roughness

How to use rudeness in a sentence?

1. St. John Baptist de La Salle, The Rules of Christian Manners and Civility (c. 1695):

   Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture.

2. Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry:

   The Ecuadorian government notices that these falsehoods are also an attempt to tarnish the dignity of the country, when they issue falsehoods, the asylee and his associates express once more their ingratitude and disrespect towards Ecuador, instead of showing gratitude towards the country that has welcomed him for nearly seven years, incurred significant expenditures to pay for his stay at the embassy, has borne their rudeness and to whom he, paradoxically, has filed a lawsuit against for adopting a cohabitation protocol in order to prevent his bad behavior from taking place again.

3. Perry Brass:

   Although some fools find rudeness sexy, it is never the path to seduction.

4. John Locke:

   There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.

5. Andrew Richardson:

   I cannot do this because it would be a California health code violation, she then became a bit more frustrated, but nothing that I would perceive as rudeness. At worst, she was playfully sassy. I really didn't think too much of it.

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