Overrude

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Too rude; more rude than necessary or desirable. rare

    "His effect upon them all was very much that of a boisterous, not overrude, autumn wind, sweeping out cobwebs, and, for the time, freshening the morbid air..."

Example

More examples

"His effect upon them all was very much that of a boisterous, not overrude, autumn wind, sweeping out cobwebs, and, for the time, freshening the morbid air..."

Etymology

From over- + rude.

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