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crudity

[kroo-di-tee] / ˈkru dɪ ti /






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Otherwise known as the Epstein files, this “library” is laden with crudity, eye-piercing typos, and rants about genetics.

From Slate Mar. 19, 2026

What’s a little surprising for something labeled the Tiffany Network is the level of crudity in the humor, the specifics of which needn’t be cataloged here.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 9, 2025

He knows what he is and glories in his crudity.

From Seattle Times Sep. 13, 2022

There is at least the possibility that a public life that is plummeting into cruelty and crudity will hit bottom and rebound.

From Washington Post Oct. 1, 2020

Both the crudity of the story of Cronus and the naïveté of the story of Pandora are characteristic of him.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

The crowd listed toward retirement age; instead of candy, there were tables of fruit and crudities, and a cash bar.

From Washington Post Oct. 31, 2019

A hectic blend of crossed signals, mistaken motivations and trenchant dialogue, “School” is written in deceptively elegant verse that adds comedic shock value to its crudities.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 5, 2018

Strong Island is moving—how could it not be?—but sometimes when a story is personal and painful, we can forgive certain filmmaking crudities and narrative lapses.

From Slate Jan. 6, 2018

“With The New Yorker,” Russell Baker wrote, “American humor began to master the arts of understatement, to refine the crudities of old-fashioned burlesque into satire, to treasure subtlety and wit.”

From New York Times Jul. 2, 2017

Yet who shall measure what Juliet owes to Rosaline?—what rough ways made smooth, what cold young crudities softened and warmed, what kindling of susceptibility, what speeding-up of passion?

From The Disturbing Charm by Ruck, Berta




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