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UK
/kɹˈuːdɪti/
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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
How To Use crudity In A Sentence
- With their lo-fi, clunky graphics, these early programs featured a strange mix of crudity and perfection: trippy, hallucinogenic animations that moved around the screen with perfect physics.
- Despite the crudity of their methods and equipment, the experiment was a considerable success.
- The too palpable intruders from a spiritual world in almost all ghost literature, in Scott and Shakespeare even, have a kind of crudity or coarseness. Appreciations, with an Essay on Style
- He maintained, however, that the very "crudity" of the old methods, involving magnetic tape, razor blades and endless copying, made for greater imaginative effort.
- At the core of this cornball crock of crudity is a compelling story of small town transformation, how one man with his unique needs had previously closed-off individuals looking within themselves regarding their personal prejudices.
- Shorter "lotusland soapbox": "I'm shocked at the crudity of Republican political discourse and smear tactics. Archive 2008-10-01
- But crudity is only the hallmark of those that have hijacked the conservative movement. Balkinization
- But none of it is really funny, and the crudity is now very dull.
- a flame fed overmuch with experience, with sophistication, grown cold under the ministrations of adroitness, and lighted now by the "crudity" of John's love-making. Lady Baltimore
- Burnell was offended by the crudity of this remark, though the same thought had occurred to him. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE