[
UK
/kɹˈuːd/
]
[ US /ˈkɹud/ ]
[ US /ˈkɹud/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment
facing the stark reality of the deadline
the crude facts
the blunt truth -
not refined or processed
crude oil
unrefined ore -
not processed or subjected to analysis
only the crude vital statistics
raw data
the raw cost of production -
not carefully or expertly made
managed to make a crude splint
rough carpentry
a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them -
conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
coarse language
a vulgar gesture
a crude joke
a revoltingly gross expletive
full of language so vulgar it should have been edited
an earthy sense of humor
crude behavior -
belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness
primitive movies of the 1890s
primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains
the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man
NOUN
- a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons
How To Use crude 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.
- 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 employer - he really deserves to be named - was told in the crudest language possible where to stick the job.
- Costs have been cut by changing the crude mix and switching the plant's boilers to burn gas rather than more expensive fuel oil. Times, Sunday Times
- Various rather crude attempts are being made to whip up opposition to such options.
