crass
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It’s crass and illegal, and yes, the cameras are insured and immediately get replaced.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
The songs that emerged revealed new textures in his arrangements and a sweeping genre range, yet also his most deliciously crass humor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
Farage said he liked Parry and had known him "for a very long time", but that his comments were "crass, insensitive, hurtful and wrong".
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026
The backlash on social media was harsh, with many viewers calling the gimmick crass, disrespectful to the nominees and even dystopian.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
Megan, Terryl says, was acting kind of crass, burping and being a bit strange.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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Yet some native poetry lurks always beneath the crasser surface.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2016
Ms. Brooks, 45, was questioned about some of the crasser highlights of her career by her own lawyer, Jonathan Laidlaw, even before prosecutors began their cross-examination on Wednesday.
From New York Times ● Mar. 5, 2014
It’s not just that communication has become more frequent, it’s become much crasser and coarser.
From Forbes ● Sep. 26, 2012
Long is a book crasser who leaves books in public places to be picked up and read by others who, hopefully, will do the same.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2011
Certainly in its crasser manifestations—this utilitarian philosophy has widely destructive effects nowadays.
From The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior by United States. Dept. of the Interior.
And that was just at the crassest level.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2021
Under the act’s crassest feature, the commissioner who returned an alleged runaway to his or her captors received a ten-dollar fee, while deciding for liberty only brought five dollars.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
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It lacked the narrative structure, moral fiber, and cathartic transformation that even the crassest feed serials took for granted.
From The Verge ● Dec. 17, 2017
It’s silly, gory and scatological but in arch and inventive fashion, lampooning television’s crassest indulgences by wallowing in them.
From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2013
I said I'd risk appearing the crassest, contradictoriest wretch that ever drew breath.
From The Return by Walter De la Mare
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