How to Use crudity in a Sentence
crudity
noun
- The movie's crudities were supposed to be funny, but they didn't make me laugh.
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All traces of sportscar crudity have been filtered out.
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Rich Ceppos,
Car and Driver,
27 Nov. 2020
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To the ne’er-do-wells who scrawled a racist slur and other crudities on the marble likeness of abolitionist John Brown at the Quindaro ruins: Thank you.
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Mary Sanchez,
kansascity,
19 Mar. 2018
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For all of her social-media antics and quotable crudity, Cardi B is not a cartoon.
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Chris Martins,
Billboard,
21 Dec. 2017
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The crowd listed toward retirement age; Instead of candy, there were tables of fruit and crudities, and a cash bar.
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Karen Heller,
Washington Post,
31 Oct. 2019
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Charlottesville highlights how the problem with Trump is not the crudity of his expression.
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Rich Lowry,
National Review,
18 Aug. 2017
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The most obvious conclusion is that the regime, for all the crudity of its politics, remains a master of the diplomatic stroke.
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The Economist,
15 Feb. 2018
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His grandiosity, his resentments, and, at moments, his crudity were all on full display, but not in a way that is likely to alienate his supporters.
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Amy Davidson,
The New Yorker,
11 Jan. 2017
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In writing this movie Stone was driven by both the self-gratification of indulging his contempt for America and his attraction to sordid crudity.
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Kyle Smith,
National Review,
6 Mar. 2021
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Nixon’s fortunes declined markedly when people heard it all in real time — all those four-letter words, his disrespect for institutions, his crudity.
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Glenn Thrush,
New York Times,
20 May 2017
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On some level, then, Twain and West appear intrigued by Trump for exactly the same reason: the way his rhetorical crudity innovates on previous political styles.
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Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
23 Apr. 2018
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Or perhaps Trump’s twitter crudity is shocking given the sober comportment of his current would-be presidential opponents.
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Victor Davis Hanson,
National Review,
27 Aug. 2019
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The progressive party, many past presidents, the media, and Hollywood didn’t need to be schooled by Donald Trump on the arts of crudity, unprofessionalism, and unethical behavior.
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Victor Davis Hanson,
National Review,
27 Aug. 2019
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His bullying — his cruelty, crudity and personal insults — is admired because it is directed at other bullies.
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Michael Gerson,
Anchorage Daily News,
13 Mar. 2018
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Kathleen is relentlessly animated and quick-witted, with thick tangerine hair, steely eyes, and an endearing personal idiolect that suggests both an autodidactic reading in philosophy and economics and the gusty crudity of the merchant marine.
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
WIRED,
18 June 2018
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