Definition for RUDE'LY

RUDE'LY, adv.

  1. With roughness; as, a mountain rudely formed.
  2. Violently; fiercely; tumultuously. The door was rudely assaulted.
  3. In a rude or uncivil manner; as, to be rudely accosted.
  4. Without exactness or nicety; coarsely; as, work rudely executed. I that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty / To strut before a wanton ambling nymph. Shak.
  5. Unskillfully. My muse, though rudely, has resign'd / Some faint resemblance of his godlike mind. Dryden.
  6. Without elegance.

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