Was he being deliberately rude because she wasn't the other one?

Serena wondered if she was being deliberately rude or whether she was just tactless.

Greg realized Bursken was neither being deliberately rude, nor trying to irritate him.

She had flirted outrageously, danced with, and been deliberately rude to a prince without even knowing it.

Although Roberto had been deliberately rude, she felt obligated to him.

They weren't being deliberately rude - it was just hard for them to concentrate.

"Are you being deliberately rude to me, Victor?"

She wasn't surprised that he was still angry, but this wasn't like him to call and be deliberately rude.

I suppose by his lights I was as ill-mannered as a deliberately rude child.

Deliberately rude and prosaic, she said, 'Thank you, but I'm much too tired to bother looking at courtyards.