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crass

[kras] / kræs /


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On Thursday, the president was even more crass, calling the ad an example of “hitting pay dirt.”

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

As a club, Hearts have every right to remain livid at the crass goading of their players during the invasion that greeted Celtic's title win - and the tokenistic sanction that followed it.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

To his many critics, Mr. Nolan’s realization of Homer’s poem is almost as crass as my depiction of it as a soccer contest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

Were he around today, he’d probably have some thoughts about the state of children’s animation too, after seeing director Andy Serkis’ crass, frenetic, Americanized “update” of his anti-totalitarianism creature tale.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

Megan, Terryl says, was acting kind of crass, burping and being a bit strange.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

Yet some native poetry lurks always beneath the crasser surface.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2016

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

And his nasal voice and prim diction wonderfully underline his crasser bits.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2012

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

From Forbes ● Sep. 26, 2012

The place is duller, the tone lower, the whole social atmosphere crasser and heavier than I could have believed possible in a town where the intelligence to make money exists so palpably.

From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Edmund Downey

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

It’s silly, gory and scatological but in arch and inventive fashion, lampooning television’s crassest indulgences by wallowing in them.

From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2013

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

From Woman under socialism by Daniel De Leon


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