Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality or state of being crude, in any sense of that word.
- noun Indigestion.
- noun That which is crude; something in a rough, unprepared, or undigested state: as, the crudities of an untrained imagination.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The condition of being crude; rawness.
- noun That which is in a crude or undigested state; hence, superficial, undigested views, not reduced to order or form.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The state of being
crude . - noun A crude act or characteristic.
- noun obsolete, medicine
Indigestion ; undigested food in the stomach; badly-concoctedhumours .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement
- noun a wild or unrefined state
Etymologies
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Examples
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Any civilized man recoils from crude behavior toward the symbols of any religion, but our legal system long ago decided that enduring crudity is better than giving the police a mandate to punish intrinsically religious offenses.
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But crudity is only the hallmark of those that have hijacked the conservative movement.
Balkinization 2007
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Any civilized man recoils from crude behavior toward the symbols of any religion, but our legal system long ago decided that enduring crudity is better than giving the police a mandate to punish intrinsically religious offenses.
Stromata Blog: 2007
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One is only looking for an order of magnitude answer, comparable in crudity to the back-of-the-envelope calculations of early cosmologists, but our biological friends tell us, without any apparent anxiety, that it just can't be done.
Courting the Theists 2005
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But beneath the crudity is a coming-of-age story that's strangely heartwarming.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Lincoln's "crudity" was democratic; Davis '"culture" was aristocratic -- nor is it to be denied that Davis had "aristocratic" views on government [1329].
Great Britain and the American Civil War Ephraim Douglass Adams
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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 Walter Pater 1866
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Friedrich Engels, who fancied himself a champion of the workingman, regarded the Irish immigrant to Great Britain as having a "crudity" that "places him little above the savage."
The Right Coast gheriot 2009
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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 Owen Wister 1899
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I’m all for disdaining conformity, but one needn’t be an insulting jackass in order to do it, nor throw this kind of crudity into a serious discussion.
Proof by ostention 2008
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