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• n  a manner that is rude and insulting
• n  a wild or unrefined state

• There is even evidence that rudeness may be good for business.
• There is even evidence that rudeness may be good for business.
• Wilson's apology was accepted by Obama's chief-of-staff Rahm Emanuel but he refused to apologize a second time to his House colleagues for his rudeness.

• discourtesy
• crudeness
• crudity
• primitiveness
• primitivism

• courtesy

News & Articles

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• Oh So Rude!
  Incivility and rudeness abound.
  June 7, 2013 - Psychology Today
• First lady's reaction to heckler appropriate and understandable
  First lady Michelle Obama has been criticized for her response to a heckler -- but how should you respond to rudeness?
  June 5, 2013 - Washington Post
• Michelle Obama’s heckler win
  The first lady shuts down a protester and triumphs over rudeness        
  June 5, 2013 - Salon.com

Quotes

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• Fuad Saniora in CNN International
  What we've seen yesterday was an unnecessary fit of anger and rudeness that we don't accept,Saniora told hundreds of supporters at his heavily fortified office complex where he has been holed up since the opposition launched street protests...
• Peter Roebuck in Hindu
  All the Australians elders want to do is to hunt him from the game. Australian fieldsmen fire insults from the corners of their mouths, an intemperate Sikh warrior overreacts, and his rudeness is seized upon,Roebuck added.
• Charles Grant in McClatchy Washington Bureau
  If the French president gets results in the Middle East, said Charles Grant, an expert on European issues at the Center for European Reform, "people will forget this brashness, this crassness, this rudeness."