crass
adjective
without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity; gross; obtuse; stupid.
crassly
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a word derived from
crass.
Example Sentences
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There’s some strange sauce at work in “Knuckles,” which makes it overcome its crassly commercial origins to feel like a worthwhile watch for those in need of a quick and zany distraction.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
"If we believe in a just law, then we must also believe that past mistakes, miscarriages of justice as patent and as crassly gendered as this one, can be set right," he added.
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2023
More crassly, the archangels promised to give the women the “lost measurements” to finding oil and gold deposits across the world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2022
And it’s clear that Chastain feels a particular protective bond with Messner, a relentlessly upbeat, ultimately good-hearted woman who made her way in an overwhelmingly male-controlled, crassly commercial media world.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2021
They were not so crassly or grossly materialistic as the present age undoubtedly is.
From Winning His "W" A Story of Freshman Year at College by Everett Titsworth Tomlinson
