unrude
English
Etymology
un- + rude
Adjective
unrude (comparative more unrude, superlative most unrude)
- Not rude.
- 1648, Robert Herrick, “A Paneygeric to Sir Lewis Pemberton”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], OCLC 1044244285; republished as Henry G. Clarke, editor, Hesperides, or Works both Human and Divine, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: H. G. Clarke and Co., […], 1844, OCLC 1110372590:
- Manners knows distance, and a man unrude / Would soon recoil, and not intrude / His stomach to a second meal.
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Synonyms
- polite
Anagrams
- Dunure, unrued