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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
- Even your humble correspondent succumbed to the spirit of anarchy, but the response my "crudeness" provoked gives me a few suggestions for investigators chasing leads on the recent spate of criminal harassment toward progressive elements. Archive 2005-10-16
- This spectrum of ‘legitimized’ violence continues through the acts of the eco-terrorists and animal liberationists to widespread rudeness, crudeness and incivility.
- But you have to suspect that the explanation lies in the crudeness of the computer's judgment, not its sophistication.
- The tone is set by banter and laddishness, in which crudeness and vulgarity often tends to be a substitute for real wit rather than an organic component of it.
- She was more than a little stunned that this man, who had the virile charm to wind this nurse around his finger, had resorted to crudeness and anger. Western Man
- For Labour, one of the immediate attractions of petitions after its various experiments in online engagement was that their crudeness guaranteed their harmlessness. Let's all join in not signing up to this idea of e-petitions | Catherine Bennett
- the crudeness of frontier dwellings depressed her
- There is a certain crudeness in its construction, an overuse of stone, far more than structurally necessary.
- Their crudeness was so hilariously over-the-top that it was nothing short of ridiculous.
- Yes, cruelness, crudeness, & tastelessness can be a property of both humor and humorless jokes. "There are no moral or immoral jokes. A joke is either funny or it is not. That is all."