Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for RUDE'LY
RUDE'LY, adv.
- With roughness; as, a mountain rudely formed.
- Violently; fiercely; tumultuously. The door was rudely assaulted.
- In a rude or uncivil manner; as, to be rudely accosted.
- 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.
- Unskillfully. My muse, though rudely, has resign'd / Some faint resemblance of his godlike mind. Dryden.
- Without elegance.
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