[
UK
/kɹˈuːdli/
]
[ US /ˈkɹudɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈkɹudɫi/ ]
ADVERB
-
in a crude and unskilled manner
an inexpertly constructed lean-to -
in a crude or unrefined manner
he was crudely bold
How To Use crudely 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.
- 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’.
- The handle was just a sharply carved crescent moon shape, crudely cut from a tarnishing piece of bronze.
- An exceptionally creepy two-parter begins tonight with various crudely dismembered body parts of young women getting washed up in the Thames or chewed by urban foxes. Times, Sunday Times
- The bridge was a line of old barges that had been crudely tied together, the deck a mishmash of welded patches of dented rusting metal.
- Marcasite, when viewed in hand specimen, tends to form crudely banded masses or massive aggregates.
- There are pygmies all around the world and the only thing they have in common in less than average height (which is why anthropologists don't use the term pygmy any more, it implies they're a distinct subset of humanity when in fact they're a completely artificial grouping crudely defined by a single characteristic). Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
- No problem acknowledging also that among the many different traditions, practices and stories that have fused and sometimes not even touched and just hung around together in what we now call Hinduism, there is room, and maybe even some intellectual and spiritual value in some contexts, for what is still quite crudely called the "phallic" perspective. Vamsee Juluri: Lord Shiva And The Economist: A New Low For Journalism
- To put it crudely, nobody really gives a toss about this any more.