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Rudely [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. With roughness; as a mountain rudely formed.

2. Violently; fiercely; tumultuously. The door was rudely assaulted.

3. In a rude or uncivil manner; as, to be rudely accosted.

4. Without exactness or nicety; coarsely; as work rudely executed.

5. I that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty to strut before a wanton ambling nymph.

7. My muse, though rudely has resign'd some faint resemblance of his godlike mind.

8. Without elegance.