rudery

English

Etymology

From rude +‎ -ry.

Noun

rudery (usually uncountable, plural ruderies)

1. (countable and uncountable) Crudeness; the use of crude language.
   • 1992, Jeremy Isaacs, quoted in John Hartley, Tele-ology: Studies in Television, page 67,

     But if people try to blow the transmitters by their rudery they are going to make life very difficult for themselves and for the Channel.

   • 2007, Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights, page 56:

     Whatever contradictions fuelled, or at this time failed to fuel my cartooning, I would have been better throwing in my lot with overt rudery and dysfunction, rather than trying to gain acceptance from the effete mob that ran the New Yorker.

   • 2010, Gerald Killingworth, Mister Misery, page 200:

     The other children loved his nickname and were now able to share the ruderies they didn′t dare read out in the French lesson.

   • 2012, Duncan Wu, editor, John Gibson Lockhardt (1794—1854): Romanticism: An Anthology, page 1376:

     All of which is confirmed by Lockhart′s attack on Hunt′s pantheon: Voltaire (French, and therefore renowned for licentiousness), Chaucer (whose work was full of ruderies), John Buncle (the story of an amorous Unitarian) and Launcelot of the Lake (about a morally questionable liaison).

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