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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
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
That visual is characteristic of the “Jefferies Show” approach, which could be called enlightened crudity.
From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2017
Both the crudity of the story of Cronus and the naïveté of the story of Pandora are characteristic of him.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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 is none of that prevenient idealism which in the north draws a veil over the crudities of sense, and helps to illuminate the half-truths they reveal.
From Rome by Malleson, Hope
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