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evil and rude


evil and rude: adj. Both evil and rude, but with the
   additional connotation that the rudeness was due to malice rather
   than incompetence.  Thus, for example: Microsoft's Windows NT is
   evil because it's a competent implementation of a bad design;
   it's rude because it's gratuitously incompatible with UNIX in
   places where compatibility would have been as easy and effective to
   do; but it's evil and rude because the incompatibilities are
   apparently there not to fix design bugs in UNIX but rather to lock
   hapless customers and developers into the Microsoft way.  Hackish
   evil and rude is close to the mainstream sense of
   `evil'.