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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

At the crudity of this gesture the Object’s calm began to crack.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

This is the first excerpt: “Written carelessly, and full of crudities, ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’ even after forty-eight years, remains a remarkable piece of fiction.

From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed


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