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ill-bred, bounderish, lowbred, rude, underbred, yokelish

adj. (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace

adj. without civilizing influences; "barbarian invaders"; "barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"-Margaret Meade; "wild tribes"

barbarian, barbaric, savage, uncivilized, uncivilised, wild

adj. without civilizing influences; "barbarian invaders"; "barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"-Margaret Meade; "wild tribes"

barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious

adj. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks"

disrespectful

adj. exhibiting lack of respect; rude and discourteous; "remarks disrespectful of the law"; "disrespectful in the presence of his parents"; "disrespectful toward his teacher"

impolite

adj. not polite

uncivil, rude

adj. lacking civility or good manners; "want nothing from you but to get away from your uncivil tongue"- Willa Cather

gauche, graceless, unpolished

adj. lacking social polish; "too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate"; "their excellent manners always made me feel gauche"

tactless, untactful

adj. lacking or showing a lack of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others; "in the circumstances it was tactless to ask her age"

thoughtless

adj. showing lack of careful thought; "the debate turned into thoughtless bickering"

thoughtless, uncaring, unthinking

adj. without care or thought for others; "the thoughtless saying of a great princess on being informed that the people had no bread; `Let them eat cake'"

indelicate, off-color, off-colour

adj. in violation of good taste even verging on the indecent; "an indelicate remark"; "an off-color joke"

tasteless

adj. lacking aesthetic or social taste

discourteous

adj. showing no courtesy; rude; "a distant and at times discourteous young"

artless, uncultivated, uncultured

adj. (of persons) lacking art or knowledge

boorish, loutish, neanderthal, neandertal, oafish, swinish

adj. ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude"

coarse, common, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar

adj. lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich"

crass

adj. (of persons) so unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility

low

adj. unrefined in character; "low comedy"

rough

adj. (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse; "she was a diamond in the rough"; "rough manners"

rough-spoken

adj. rude or uncouth in speech

ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike

adj. not befitting a gentleman

unladylike

adj. lacking the behavior or manner or style considered proper for a lady

refined

adj. (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste"

civil, polite

adj. not rude; marked by satisfactory (or especially minimal) adherence to social usages and sufficient but not noteworthy consideration for others; "even if he didn't like them he should have been civil"- W.S. Maugham

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