The Clue
Less than urbane (4 letter answer)
The Answer
RUDE
Tags
Notes
The answer RUDE is seen frequently, appearing about once every 150 puzzles.
Related Clues
Boorish
Brusque
Coarse
Discourteous
"How ___!"
Impudent
Inconsiderate
Loutish
Makeshift
Obnoxious
Rough
Uncivil
Uncouth
Unfashioned
Unfinished
Ungallant
Unrefined
Hardly chivalrous
Hardly genteel
Ill-mannered
Like a churl
Like starers
Not polite
Primitively simple
Snarling, say
Unfinished or uncouth
Unwrought or uncouth
Like elbowing, e.g.
Like Emerson's bridge
Like line jumpers
Like some awakenings
More than unpleasant
Like cutting in line, e.g.
Like talking in a theater, e.g.
Like talking during a movie, e.g.
Definition
RUDE as an adjective:
1. (ill-mannered, bad-mannered, rude, unmannered, unmannerly) = socially incorrect in behavior; "resentment flared at such an unmannered intrusion"
2. (ill-bred, bounderish, lowbred, rude, underbred, yokelish) = (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace
3. (uncivil, rude) = lacking civility or good manners; "want nothing from you but to get away from your uncivil tongue"- Willa Cather
4. (natural, raw, rude) = (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes; "natural yogurt"; "natural produce"; "raw wool"; "raw sugar"; "bales of rude cotton"
5. (crude, primitive, rude) = belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness; "the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains"