crassness

crass | American Dictionary

crass
adjective[ -er/-est only ]
us/kræs/
offensive in manner or style:
I don’t know anyone who would speak in such a crass manner.

Examples of crass

crass
As usually happens, effective results were an outcome of rational options as much of contingency, of explicit will but also of crass necessity.
On the more crass level, generous spoils, including government-created research centers, were available to those who cooperated.
First, it is just more subtle in approach - no crass annihilation or creation of uncountable gallons of water, for example.
However easy it is to find religion being hawked in crass ways, the kinship idiom of the congregation protects people from being reduced to commodities.
In other words, we agree with both arguments that increased economic competition has reduced opportunities for crass rent seeking.
Partly this was for crass reasons, such as licensing more building work than the resources were available to complete.
Nor do we have to read crass self-interest into this picture.
Perhaps popularization of the subject, however crass it might be at times, might eventually stimulate more students to allow it to be taught.
By avoiding hi, women hope to avoid being perceived as impolite, crass, and uneducated.
At this level both claims are essentialist and locked in competition between a diffuse linguistic/cultural/political reductionism on the one hand and a crass economic determinism on the other.
Karolyi's writing is outstanding in its use of the crass generalisation.
Crass though they may seem, problems of 'size' have long been recognized as crucial in other ways in debates about democracy.
Kahn is the idealist, resisting the crass and commercial, dwelling on permanence and the integrity of materials.
It is within this more hazardous, ad hoc generation of meaning that spin can readily do its work without anything so crass as a lie or invention.
When compared against the introduction to the package, which dwells so appropriately on the need for sensitivity and musical discrimination, such crass offerings appear all the more obnoxious and shocking.
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