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crass

[kras] / kræs /


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However crass it might seem to use the document for advertising, the practice put the Declaration in many more hands and created a lasting relationship with the American people.

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 2026

Despite or because of the crass, disrespectful language, conservative influencers are raving about the video as a game-changer.

From Los Angeles Times May 6, 2026

Before taking time off, the band had settled into making sleek, shimmery retro-disco tracks like Dynamite and Butter - designed to appeal to the sort of listener who finds Bruno Mars too crass and abrasive.

From BBC Mar. 20, 2026

If Hulu’s “Shoresy” is the poster child for successfully balancing raunch and heart, “Ted” is on the opposite end — crass and lazy.

From MarketWatch Feb. 27, 2026

“Jason Grace, the West Wind has been called many things...warm, gentle, life-giving, and devilishly handsome. But I have never been called startling. I leave that crass behavior to my gusty brethren in the north.”

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

In the critical drubbing that has accompanied the series’ actual release, “Insatiable” has been condemned as a thing even crasser than promised, and not without reason.

From The New Yorker Aug. 10, 2018

Ms. Brooks, 45, was questioned about some of the crasser highlights of her career by her own lawyer, Jonathan Laidlaw, even before prosecutors began their cross-examination on Wednesday.

From New York Times Mar. 5, 2014

It’s not just that communication has become more frequent, it’s become much crasser and coarser.

From Forbes Sep. 26, 2012

Long is a book crasser who leaves books in public places to be picked up and read by others who, hopefully, will do the same.

From Seattle Times Sep. 21, 2011

But this view that judgment and execution go together is that of the crasser supernaturalist way of thinking, so the present volume must on the whole be classed with the other expressions of that creed.

From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by James, William

And that was just at the crassest level.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 24, 2021

Under the act’s crassest feature, the commissioner who returned an alleged runaway to his or her captors received a ten-dollar fee, while deciding for liberty only brought five dollars.

From Textbooks Jan. 18, 2018

It lacked the narrative structure, moral fiber, and cathartic transformation that even the crassest feed serials took for granted.

From The Verge Dec. 17, 2017

Luckily Ms. Cheung and Mr. Kao have a low-key cuteness that renders even the crassest scenes inoffensive — even if her three-word wedding-day confession is not the one most men want to hear. 

From New York Times Aug. 13, 2010

As a rule, only in cases of crassest infidelity or maltreatment, does the wife decide upon divorce.

From Woman under socialism by De Leon, Daniel




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