I had by now already done my anagrams in Countdown (living with the diminishing hope of something rude turning up).
And if someone asks you whom you aren't interested in going with, don't be rude turn them down with grace and gratitude.
During the flood of 1964, Mr. Ruder turned his weekly paper in this small northwestern Montana town into a daily, printing as many as 12,550 copies a day, compared with a normal circulation of 3,900.
It seemed rude to turn them down, or to ask how much they cost.
It's almost, in our sort of society, rude to turn things down and silly to take them seriously.
As I hadn't seen her for four months, I thought it might be rather rude to turn up late.
"He said people would gatecrash, bringing all their family when only they were invited and it's rude to turn them away".
In defence of his loving parents and grandparents, the play shed was given to George as a present, and it may have been rude to turn it down.
But if they wanted to be Facebook friends, a lot of us may feel it would rude to turn them down.
As (almost) any foreigner discovers sooner or later, Russians, although seemingly cold and rude, can turn out to be the most warm and welcoming people on earth.
