[
US
/ˈkɹəd/
]
[ UK /kɹˈʌd/ ]
[ UK /kɹˈʌd/ ]
NOUN
-
an ill-defined bodily ailment
he said he had the crud and needed a doctor - heavy wet snow that is unsuitable for skiing
- any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant
How To Use crud In A Sentence
- It was a simple rectangle of crudely mounded basalt rocks, a distinctive arrangement reminiscent of the way Samoans and other Polynesians marked their dead in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- At the head, they may have some explosives which are triggered by a crude fuze consisting of a bullet. Israeli TV airs call to father after children killed « Antiwar.com Blog
- There was a even an issue cover I think, or at least some page art we had commissioned, showing Krugman as a crude pitchman or something.
- [The site] consists of 'crudities': pieces of raw experience, regularly uploaded ... it aims at developing an extended version of the conventional weblog, one that allows users to upload visual input such as (streaming -) video-files and pictures as easily as texts. Boing Boing: December 22, 2002 - December 28, 2002 Archives
- Everyone became equally loud, crude and garrulous, the technically sober behaving identically to the genuinely drunk.
- On that day people give each other sugar skulls with a name label crudely pasted on the forehead.
- I think we have to distinguish those narratives which crudely manipulate fear or repulsion and disgust from that which Lovecraft correctly calls ‘the weird tale’.
- It is the worst return since 2002 and follows a dramatic slide in global crude oil prices. The Sun
- The reward is tremendous weight and presence; the downside emotional crudity.
- The employer - he really deserves to be named - was told in the crudest language possible where to stick the job.