crass

With her bright-eyed inquisitiveness bordering on tactlessness, and Harry Potter T-shirt, Cheryl-Ann comes close to being a caricature of a crass tourist, and is treated as such with cool disdain by Orla.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

Reform UK's candidate in the Makerfield by-election has admitted making "crass" comments online, after scrutiny of his past posts during the campaign.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 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

If Hulu’s “Shoresy” is the poster child for successfully balancing raunch and heart, “Ted” is on the opposite end — crass and lazy.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 27, 2026

Here, her father would seem crass, with his unnecessary big words, and her mother provincial and small.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

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

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

Common-sense truthfulness Tell us, at Christmas, youth's crassest of crass ages.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 31, 1892 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir