RUDELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rudely mean? 

• RUDELY (adverb)
  The adverb RUDELY has 1 sense:

1. in an impolite manner

  Familiarity information: RUDELY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUDELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an impolite manner

Synonyms:

discourteously; impolitely; rudely

Context example:

he treated her impolitely

Pertainym:

rude (socially incorrect in behavior)

 Context examples 

The thread of the argument had been rudely broken, and the audience was restless and expectant.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As Alleyne walked up to it he perceived that it was rudely fashioned out of beams of wood, with twinkling lights all over where the glow from within shone through the chinks.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"I thought you were going to tell your speech to that man," said Jo, rudely shortening her sister's little reverie.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Her son sat her down in his chair; and, standing sulkily by her, holding her arm with his hand, but not rudely, said to me, with a ferocious look: What do you want done?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Never had the peaceful atmosphere of the old Cistercian house been so rudely ruffled.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But young as she was, Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally, so though she believed she knew the cause of Beth's new pain, she only said, in her tenderest tone, Does anything trouble you, deary?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Over the fireplace were suspended six or seven shields of wood, with coats-of-arms rudely daubed upon them, which showed by their varying degrees of smokiness and dirt that they had been placed there at different periods.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

'Twere as easy to woo the snow-dame that we shaped last winter in our castle yard. I did but ask her yesternight for her green veil, that I might bear it as a token or lambrequin upon my helm; but she flashed out at me that she kept it for a better man, and then all in a breath asked pardon for that she had spoke so rudely. Yet she would not take back the words either, nor would she grant the veil. Has it seemed to thee, Alleyne, that she loves any one?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Who?" he demanded rudely.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)