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
"There might have been a few crass comments that I've said," he added.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
However crass it might seem to use the document for advertising, the practice put the Declaration in many more hands and created a lasting relationship with the American people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Despite or because of the crass, disrespectful language, conservative influencers are raving about the video as a game-changer.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
Here, her father would seem crass, with his unnecessary big words, and her mother provincial and small.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The moral geography of New England tends to follow its lines of altitude: virtue is sought in the hills; a crasser commerce prevails near the sea.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 17, 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
And his nasal voice and prim diction wonderfully underline his crasser bits.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2012
It’s not just that communication has become more frequent, it’s become much crasser and coarser.
From Forbes ● Sep. 26, 2012
The man was able to delight the more in that rare smile on Jane’s reposeful features because released from crasser cravings.
From Lonesome Town by Ethel Dorrance
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
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
Given that he doesn’t even consider what he does to be dance music, Streten is particularly keen not to be lumped in with the crassest end of the genre.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 5, 2015
On the other hand, it would be the crassest of indiscretions to linger about the place an instant longer than absolutely necessary.
From The Black Bag by Louis Joseph Vance
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