"rude answer" can be used in written English.
You can use it in situations when someone has given a rude response. For example, "His rude answer shocked us all".
But the rude answers they received soon put them off this track.
They tend to be very sarcastic, and avoid answering questions directly, but instead give a slightly rude sarcastic answer.
He wrote again, withdrawing his request, saying he would never work for someone too rude to answer letters, which immediately brought an interview offer from the editor, Alastair Hetherington.
The hamburgers are like hamburgers everywhere, but there's a homey grilled hot dog, bursting out of its skin, called the fat dog, which looks like a rude American answer to the designer Euro-franks at F & B down the block.
In a society where it's considered rude to answer "yes" to the question "Does anyone want the last scone?" (especially if they're at the next table, I've learned), it's amazing how many people will happily go up to a young jobseeker, pick up their last shred of self-esteem and dunk it in their tea until it disintegrates into soggy clumps.
Don't be rude, just answer questions from them with honesty and sincerity.
Joyce Carol Oates, who has published thirty-eight novels, twenty-one story collections, nine books of poetry, and twelve essay collections, and who also teaches full time at Princeton, has had to answer rude questions about her rate of production.
These were the odd ways in which the phone communicated: urgent beeps to say, "Hang up"; long-belled rings to say, "Answer"; rude blasts of the busy signal to say, "No".
We've all agreed that asking about personal income is rude and that answering such a question would be foolish and unnecessary.
Don't be critical or rude about her answers: they are hers, not yours!
