crass

It’s crass and illegal, and yes, the cameras are insured and immediately get replaced.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

As a club, Hearts have every right to remain livid at the crass goading of their players during the invasion that greeted Celtic's title win - and the tokenistic sanction that followed it.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 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

To many of the families of the dead, returning to Mystic is crass bordering on disrespectful.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026

I have come to think of marriage as dishonorable, a crass trade-off rather than a free gift.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

In the critical drubbing that has accompanied the series’ actual release, “Insatiable” has been condemned as a thing even crasser than promised, and not without reason.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 10, 2018

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

It is only in the crasser expressions of devout fancy that this intrusion of pecuniary canons into the devout ideals reaches such an extreme.

From Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen

And that was just at the crassest level.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2021

Mr. Plummer’s résumé, which stretched over seven decades, was at least colossal, if not nonpareil, encompassing acting opportunities from some of dramatic literature’s greatest works to some of commercial entertainment’s crassest exploitations.

From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2021

Put all this together, and you have quite a charge sheet: exploitation, the turning of music into wallpaper, and the slicing and dicing of great art according to the crassest of considerations.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 29, 2018

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

As a rule, only in cases of crassest infidelity or maltreatment, does the wife decide upon divorce.

From Woman under socialism by Daniel De Leon