Example Sentences

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To put it crassly, I am now only one behind Meryl Streep.

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2023

Writing on Twitter, he told supporters that he and a friend had simply been joking around crassly.

From New York Times • May 15, 2022

The musical, which is streaming ahead of its Broadway premiere in November, is still a crassly commercial noise machine.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2021

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

I asked, tormented with a desire to know what he did think of me, and crassly ready to burst into explanations on the least provocation.

From The First Violin A Novel by Fothergill, Jessie