as in vulgar
lacking in refinement or good taste
a loudmouthed jerk given to rude jokes and crass comments
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Recent Examples of crass
Some segments of the Democratic coalition would find Piker to be edgy, or crass, or even despicable.
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Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
That’s a straightforward, even sympathetic premise with a crass edge to boot.
—J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 14 Mar. 2025
The atmosphere was charming, crass, and rather technical.
—Hannah Gold, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
Trump teaches this crass behavior to his MAGA minions so that many Americans can no longer distinguish true from false, right from wrong, justice from injustice.
—Bob Kustra, Chicago Tribune, 7 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crass
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The childish use of vulgar profanity simply leads peoople to view the speaker as being unable to express his/her view.—
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Along with receiving vulgar comments in person and people taking her picture on campus, the 18-year-old has received vile and sexist messages after her phone number was posted online.—
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The incident sparked mixed reactions on social media, with some criticizing Wallen’s actions on the show as rude.—
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This, experts say, is a punctuation choice that can make messages appear uncertain or vague, which confuses recipients and sometimes comes off as passive aggressive and rude.—
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More so, because bearish sentiment was already well entrenched in world’s crude markets before the latest events unfolded.—
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The price of crude oil tumbled to its lowest level since 2021.—
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Hen of the Woods Sandwich from Dad’s Luncheonette 1 tablespoon coriander seeds 1 tablespoon fennel seeds 1 tablespoon coarse sea salt DIRECTIONS: Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.—
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TikTok clued us into the power of shaving your body—mainly your she-shrubbery—using what is technically a beard trimmer, because it's designed explicitly to motor through coarse hair.—
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Furthermore, poor diets are common in the U.S., and the fast pace of life can cause more stress than women experience elsewhere, Annapoorna Kini, MD, director of the Interventional Structural Heart Disease Program for the Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital in New York, added.—
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However, the dress proved exceedingly difficult to appropriately pair with a corset (an undergarment whose use was extremely common and all but outright expected at the time), thanks to its sheer qualities.—
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“Crass.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crass. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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