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Origin of crudity
1375–1425; late Middle English crudite < Latin crūditās. See crude, -ity
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Otherwise known as the Epstein files, this “library” is laden with crudity, eye-piercing typos, and rants about genetics.
From Slate ● Mar. 19, 2026
What’s a little surprising for something labeled the Tiffany Network is the level of crudity in the humor, the specifics of which needn’t be cataloged here.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
He knows what he is and glories in his crudity.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2022
It’s beloved not so much for its violence or crudity, but rather the skill that results in violence averted.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2017
At the crudity of this gesture the Object’s calm began to crack.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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
Mainly it is a twelfth-century edifice throughout, in spite of the extensive restorations of the nineteenth century, which have eradicated many crudities that might better have been allowed to remain.
From The Cathedrals of Southern France by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
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