How to Use crass in a Sentence

crass

adjective
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  • A few people seemed shocked by her crass comments.
  • Amer: Not to be crass, but that sounds a bit like a fart.
    — Pakinam Amer, Scientific American, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Terry came across as gruff and crass on the phone that day.
    — Jessica Lucas, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2023
  • Don was a blowhard, and about one in ten of his crass jokes were funny.
    — Sarah Miller, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2020
  • Elvis would never have been so crass as to have fired Colonel from the stage.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 25 June 2022
  • Sánchez refers to herself as loud and crass, and her writing proves it.
    — Keishel Williams, Washington Post, 17 July 2022
  • For me, that shows that there is hope — and this could be a bit crass, but that there’s hope for White people.
    — Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2021
  • There is a saying on Wall Street that is too crass to repeat here in detail.
    — Vineer Bhansali, Forbes, 2 July 2022
  • But those lines are not as stark as the crass and hateful language on the recordings might lead many to conclude.
    — Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2022
  • But as crass as that is, Sawant may in a sense only be channeling the people.
    — Danny Westneat, The Seattle Times, 2 June 2017
  • Bar the odd bit of crass anti-gay banter among the students, the subject hardly comes up.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 9 Sep. 2022
  • In crass times like these, the deep civility that powers his voice is a balm.
    — Frances Mayes, New York Times, 2 June 2017
  • Some Democrats denounced it as a crass play, rooted in stereotype.
    — Maya King, New York Times, 10 June 2024
  • There’s a fine line between funny and crass, and White never fails to respect it.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 11 Dec. 2021
  • Paris on a gray day, when light is harmonized with its absence and nothing dares to be so crass as to flash.
    — Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The show is never crass and does not overpush its genuinely warm welcome from the work-weary.
    — Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 22 Apr. 2024
  • To be sure, crass and hateful public figures are worthy of ridicule.
    — WIRED, 28 July 2023
  • But the content that earned the greatest scrutiny is his crass jokes about children.
    — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023
  • There’s a lot of winking and smirking between the two of them, which defuses the crass chauvinism that guides the whole play.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 24 July 2024
  • Prince did a lot of bad work, not in a crass way, but not everything rises to the level of ‘Little Red Corvette.’ But that’s good in a way.
    — Connie Ogle, miamiherald, 23 May 2017
  • Lanthimos ridicules mankind’s treachery in films that, scene by scene, are not provocative, just crass.
    — Armond White, National Review, 21 June 2024
  • But when the singer went to tweet about the importance of our nation's independence, she was met with a crass response.
    — Devon Ivie, SELF, 5 July 2017
  • But fans who witnessed it were troubled by the fan’s crass act after an emotional evening.
    — Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024
  • In just under four minutes, smooth crooner drops the king of all four-letter words no less than 21 times during the crass breakup ballad.
    — Robbie Daw, Billboard, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Those who are profiting off of record sales need a narrative that justifies their work as more than a crass cash grab.
    — Konstanze Frischen, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2021
  • On Wednesday, however, the Ringer reported on crass remarks and jokes Mr. Richards had made on a podcast of his about eight years ago.
    — John Jurgensen, WSJ, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Still, Greer is aware that some in the literary world might view his decision to write a sequel as uninspired — or worse, a crass money grab.
    — Alexandra Alter, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Teeley’s crass remark was far from the only overt sexism Ferraro faced.
    — Lila Thulin, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Nothing is crass or glaring or reminiscent of a child’s video game.
    — Mark Ewing, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • But as the era of toilet-paper hoarding winds down, a little frivolity in gift-giving doesn’t seem so crass.
    — Eric Andersson, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2021

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