It stank like a rude reply when it was switched on.

Snappy, sometimes rude replies to simple questions on travel branches are annoying and probably turn a lot of new users away.

Not wishing to fob him off with a rude reply, I ask him which side of the river he prefers.

'That's none of your business,' was the old man's rude reply.

Again he made a rude reply.

I was really hoping to get a rude reply and be called a "Clarksonista" or something but this particular article is runing out of steam.

Please excuse what may, on the surface, seem to be a rude reply.

A newspaper report dated 23 December 1583 relates that, having given Ferdinand a rude reply, the defenders went back to lunch.

"You know nothing," was his rude reply.

Miles was about to make a rude reply, when it hit him-here was escape, being offered on a platter.