crudity
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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
During scenes at the duke’s palace, Rigoletto’s sneering crudity barely masked his hatred for the court.
From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2022
Although the style of each varied in crudity, the subjects of the paintings were relatively similar: camellias floating in bowls of water, azaleas tortured into ambitious flower arrangements, magnolias that looked like white windmills.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
Tobacco and cotton, by contrast, represented the crudities of the plantation.
From Slate ● Jan. 5, 2021
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
“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
Mainly it is a twelfth-century edifice throughout, in spite of the extensive restorations of the nineteenth century, which have eradicated many crudities that might better have been allowed to remain.
From The Cathedrals of Southern France by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
