rudeness

n

1. discourteousness, impoliteness, incivility, unmannerliness; inconsideration, tactlessness, disrespect, disrespectfulness, misbehavior; ungraciousness, indecorum, uncourtliness, ungentlemanliness, hoydenism; brashness, boldness, brazenness, insolence, impudence, impertinence, pertness, tartness, sauciness, freshness; flippancy, arrogance, cheek, lip, effrontery, presumption; sharpness, keenness, acri-moniousness, causticity; brutality, cruelty; sarcasm, bitterness, virulence, contemptuousness, opprobriousness, derision; gruffness, bluffness, bearishness; grouchiness, crabbedness, surliness, sulkiness, moroseness, peevishness, petulance, sourness, acerbity; abruptness, bluntness, brusqueness, curtness, shortness, harshness, austerity, sternness; raffishness, ribaldry, smuttiness, obscenity.

2. uncouthness, crudeness, crudity, vulgarity; boor-ishness, churlishness, loutishness; brutishness, barbarity, savagery, grossness; ignorance, illiteracy; clumsiness, ungainliness, gaucherie.

3. roughness, harshness, ungentleness; hardness, coarseness, scratchiness, abrasiveness.

4. rawness, crudeness, roughness; shapelessness, formlessness, amorphism, amorphousness, asymmetry, unshapeliness, misshapenness.

5.(of sounds) harshness, stridence, piercingness, ear-splittingness; dissonance, discordance, discord, disharmony, cacophony.

6. artlessness, naturalness, rusticity, simpleness, simplicity, plainness, unadornment.

7. violence, tempestuousness, storminess, turbulence, tumultuousness; uproariousness, boisterousness, riotousness; ferocity, fierceness, savageness, vehemence, rage, frenzy, fury; vigor, robustness.