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Definition of crass in English: crassadjective kraskræs Showing no intelligence or sensitivity. the crass assumptions that men make about women an act of crass stupidity Example sentencesExamples - There's nothing wrong with a healthy spirit of crass commercialism, or even a whiff of naked greed these days, is there?
- To ignore such an evident flowering of talent and achievement is not only crass stupidity but a wasted opportunity.
- I hope this doesn't appear crass, but it hints at the desperation of the survivors that we can help by sending rice to that region.
- There's something fundamentally crass and vaguely offensive about all of this, isn't there?
- Over the next decade, the crass stupidity of the words must have haunted them.
- As a result, the next generation was to tend towards political quietism and, worst of all, a crass materialism.
- For them, the West was crass, materialistic and, of course, morally rotten.
- It's just a maelstrom of shrieking children, crass commercialism, and ratcheting credit card debt.
- Yet I am not advocating a crass rationalism in which reverence, empathy and love have no place.
- In place of serious musical appreciation we got crass superficiality.
- Communal forces thrive on the crass ignorance of the masses concerning the essentials of their faith.
- By setting such a trap or permitting an employee to do so on a river where otters are breeding is crass stupidity.
- Not only he is he a crass bigot, and therefore worthy of shooting, but absolutely illogical.
- To state baldly that it's purely between the woman and her doctor is crass and simplistic at the very least.
- It is very often cheesy and crass, and is completely pretentious from start to finish!
- What I am saying is no one, absolutely no one, should have to put up with crass disrespect.
- It was a mindless and moronic act of political naivete and crass immaturity.
- It seems staggeringly crass and inappropriate, but I understand his need to record this terrible scene.
- Some of the songs were straight from the top of the genius pile, while others were just crass, crude and downright stupid.
- It's crass, sadistic and appeals to the very worst in human nature.
Synonyms stupid, insensitive, blundering, dense, thick, vacuous, mindless, witless, doltish, oafish, boorish, asinine, bovine, coarse, gross informal pig-ignorant gross, utter, sheer, downright, total, out-and-out, outright, very great, complete, absolute, thorough, perfect, blatant, unmitigated, unqualified, glaring, undisguised, naked
Derivatives noun It definitely has nothing to do with gays marrying and absolutely everything to do with the preponderance of rampant crassitude. Example sentencesExamples - So, for the sake of this venerable pageant, let's hope the hopefuls display gratitude and pulchritude, rather than crassitude and attitude.
- To be fair, it was not an activity but a pop group; but it seemed to sum up the ineffable crassitude of the place.
adverb ‘These are very ill thought out, and I have to say, crassly stupid on occasion, suggestions for the reform of very serious laws,’ he said. Example sentencesExamples - Supposedly about ideas and values, parties are usually tools for marshalling and brokering power - often crassly and with a walloping dose of self-interest.
- Why don't we begin by asking crassly and blatantly why anyone would care to read this interview?
- What most people seem to be missing, however, is that he's still not much more than a glorified landlord who crassly flaunts his wealth in front of the unwashed American underclasses.
- ‘It's annoying, frustrating, disappointing and insubstantial,’ she snaps when I crassly raise the subject of her bank balance.
noun You probably despise them for being blinded by their own material crassness and their ignorance of the world. Example sentencesExamples - In an age of crassness, vulgarity and self-indulgence, she has continued to be an icon of what we once were and of what we might yet become again.
- There is a fine line between righteous anger and crassness.
- You can expect the same vulgarity and crassness you have come to love from these fine upstanding pillars of society.
- Many of them, I think, are so turned off by the crassness of the current political climate that they have turned away from politics.
Origin Late 15th century (in the sense 'dense or coarse'): from Latin crassus 'solid, thick'. Crass, as in crass stupidity, was first recorded as meaning ‘dense or coarse’. It comes from Latin crassus ‘solid, thick’.
Rhymes alas, Alsace, amass, Bass, chasse, crevasse, en masse, gas, Hamas, lass, mass, morass, sass, tarantass, tass, wrasse Definition of crass in US English: crassadjectivekraskræs Lacking sensitivity, refinement, or intelligence. the crass assumptions that men make about women Example sentencesExamples - There's nothing wrong with a healthy spirit of crass commercialism, or even a whiff of naked greed these days, is there?
- It is very often cheesy and crass, and is completely pretentious from start to finish!
- Communal forces thrive on the crass ignorance of the masses concerning the essentials of their faith.
- As a result, the next generation was to tend towards political quietism and, worst of all, a crass materialism.
- It's just a maelstrom of shrieking children, crass commercialism, and ratcheting credit card debt.
- It was a mindless and moronic act of political naivete and crass immaturity.
- What I am saying is no one, absolutely no one, should have to put up with crass disrespect.
- Over the next decade, the crass stupidity of the words must have haunted them.
- Some of the songs were straight from the top of the genius pile, while others were just crass, crude and downright stupid.
- To state baldly that it's purely between the woman and her doctor is crass and simplistic at the very least.
- It seems staggeringly crass and inappropriate, but I understand his need to record this terrible scene.
- In place of serious musical appreciation we got crass superficiality.
- There's something fundamentally crass and vaguely offensive about all of this, isn't there?
- It's crass, sadistic and appeals to the very worst in human nature.
- By setting such a trap or permitting an employee to do so on a river where otters are breeding is crass stupidity.
- Yet I am not advocating a crass rationalism in which reverence, empathy and love have no place.
- To ignore such an evident flowering of talent and achievement is not only crass stupidity but a wasted opportunity.
- For them, the West was crass, materialistic and, of course, morally rotten.
- I hope this doesn't appear crass, but it hints at the desperation of the survivors that we can help by sending rice to that region.
- Not only he is he a crass bigot, and therefore worthy of shooting, but absolutely illogical.
Synonyms stupid, insensitive, blundering, dense, thick, vacuous, mindless, witless, doltish, oafish, boorish, asinine, bovine, coarse, gross gross, utter, sheer, downright, total, out-and-out, outright, very great, complete, absolute, thorough, perfect, blatant, unmitigated, unqualified, glaring, undisguised, naked
Origin Late 15th century (in the sense ‘dense or coarse’): from Latin crassus ‘solid, thick’. |