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Definition of Overrude
1. excessively rude [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overrude
Literary usage of Overrude
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1884)
"Better Unit than starvation in Holland, or seeking a home beyond the Atlantic,
where, belike, the children of the devil might prove overrude companions. ..."
2. Judith Shakespeare: Her Love Affairs and Other Adventures by William Black (1884)
"... where, belike, the children of the devil might prove overrude companions.
I marvel not, I; 'tis a foolish bird that forsakes a warm nest. ..."
3. Colonel Dacre: A Novel by Emily Jolly (1874)
"Ilia effect upon them all was very much that of a boisterous, not overrude, autumn
wind, sweeping out cobwebs, and, for the time, freshening the morbid air ..."
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