crudity

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

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

That visual is characteristic of the “Jefferies Show” approach, which could be called enlightened crudity.

From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2017

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

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

I offer no apology for its crudities, imperfections or omissions.

From The History of Company A, Second Illinois Cavalry by Samuel H. Fletcher