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UK
/kɹˈuːdnəs/
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NOUN
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an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement
the whole town was famous for its crudeness - a wild or unrefined state
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an unpolished unrefined quality
the crudeness of frontier dwellings depressed her
How To Use crudeness In A Sentence
- The crudeness and ribaldry were, of course, part of a deliberate marketing ploy, designed to tickle palates grown jaded by constant repasts of R - rated movies and cable shows.
- So far, I'd say the energy isn't quite there (nor even the crudeness, not the right kind of crudeness anyway) but it's not too late for the book; it still may end strong. Have You Ever Bought a Buzz Book?
- the whole town was famous for its crudeness
- Here we have a somewhat cruder type, printed on hand-laid, deckel-edged paper, with excessive margins and uncut leaves, with bindings of a painstaking crudeness and elaborate ineptitude. The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions
- While the script is moderately funny, it is laden with a crudeness that only fine actors can finesse. Carole Mallory: Robert De Niro Is Fireproof
- The outrage it provoked was based on the seeming crudeness of the content and the sexist nastiness of the boy protagonists.
- The outrage it provoked was based on the seeming crudeness of the content and the sexist nastiness of the boy protagonists.
- Jenny Lind's had incomparably more power and more at all times in reserve; but it had a shade of that same veiled quality in its lowest tones, consistently with the same (but much more) ripeness and sweetness, and perfect freedom from the crudeness often called clearness, as they rise. Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum
- The crudeness in construction may be attributed to the mason's unfamiliarity with the new material.
- He was then probably in the revolt against too much literature in literature, which every one is destined sooner or later to share; there was a certain roughness, very like crudeness, which he indulged before his thought and phrase mellowed to one music in his later work. Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship