Word: rude
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...with technique acquired as a teenage trainee on Savile Row, the London street celebrated for handmade suits. After an apprenticeship of Dickensian harshness, McQueen harnessed his skills to the construction of cunning jackets, curved to just conceal the breasts, and trousers, called "bumsters," slung so low as to be rude...
...gave up, not having made one sale, got one rude remark or seen one woman in her underwear. Lanza told me I was a bit "uptight" and shouldn't "walk like a robot." I was starting to rethink my thesis about the salespeople being nicer than the customers...
Cell phones are so new that there are few rules of etiquette surrounding their use. By introducing penalties for rude behavior, fines are a good first step toward enforcing the rules of decency on the most serious interrupters...
...turn out to be no more than minor bumps in the maturing of the partnership in the 21st century. Lee’s anti-South Korea ranting certainly does not help anyone (except possibly Kim Jong Il) and only helps to perpetuate the incorrect stereotype that the Americans are rude and arrogant...
...chairman Lee Jasper, a race-relations adviser to London Mayor Ken Livingstone. At a Whitehall summit called by Home Secretary David Blunkett, politicians, bureaucrats and police officers expressed grave concern over the latest crime statistics. That both meetings, which took place last week, were about gun crimes is a rude shock for many Britons, shaking their smug self-image as a relatively gun-free society, far removed from those trigger-happy cowboys across the Atlantic. The Birmingham carnage - two girls died and two were injured in the cross-fire between two turf-warring gangs - was supposed to happen in places...