crudity
noun
the state or quality of being crude.
crudities
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pluralof crudity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The crowd listed toward retirement age; instead of candy, there were tables of fruit and crudities, and a cash bar.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 31, 2019
A hectic blend of crossed signals, mistaken motivations and trenchant dialogue, “School” is written in deceptively elegant verse that adds comedic shock value to its crudities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2018
Strong Island is moving—how could it not be?—but sometimes when a story is personal and painful, we can forgive certain filmmaking crudities and narrative lapses.
From Slate ● Jan. 6, 2018
“With The New Yorker,” Russell Baker wrote, “American humor began to master the arts of understatement, to refine the crudities of old-fashioned burlesque into satire, to treasure subtlety and wit.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2017
There were crudities in these two narrative poems which seemed to be put there deliberately, in order to startle and shock the reader.
From The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces by Joyce Kilmer
