cruder
- comparative of crude.
Example Sentences
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In addition to the Shahed-136, Iran also has stocks of earlier, cruder models of the Shahed that it can turn to.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026
Yet this desire to take over Greenland seems to stem from an impulse even cruder than one might suspect.
From Slate • Jan. 8, 2026
"That is not the modus operandi. It's slightly cruder than that, on the whole."
From BBC • Aug. 7, 2023
Others were far cruder, employing fake accounts that were easily spotted before they could even attract a following.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 22, 2023
Here man has a cruder enemy even than himself.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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