crude
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5.1
- adjective
- /kruːd/
- Offensive
:
vulgar
- His crude remarks at the dinner party were inappropriate.
- crude stereotypes
- crude and obscene
It's a delightfully crude acronym for Fat Upper Pubic Area.
- It's a delightfully crude acronym for Fat Upper Pubic Area.
- And we not only have a joke, we have a fairly crude Dick joke going on.
- I very openly, I don't want to say use him for views because that is a very crude way of saying it.
- So while I would do it again, I would change a few words that were cruder than they needed to be.
- The, the heretic is the key figure, the, the person who says to pick a crass and crude example.
- So if she's, pardon the crude language, if she's giving it away for free, it lowers the price that I can charge for it.
- There was a percentage of people who responded who were crude.
- This kind of manipulation is a cynical and corrupt luxury that people are crude.
- I mean, I'm, I'm, I, I say that I'm, I'm crude and wholesome because I can be very crude.
Examples
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I said, "Forgive me if it's crude to ask, but what did you see in him?"
Fiction book (1997) -
Okay, okay, not to be crude but...
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Well, l hate to be crude, but l gotta take care of some business.
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Do you realise how crude that is?
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Others seem crude and insensitive.
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Rather a crude way of putting it, but I suppose it's apt.
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"I don't remember ever being quite as crude as you are, Aaron."
Fiction book (1999) -
And there's talk of sexual matters in the most explicit and crude and horrible ways.
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Aristodemus gets up and he says there are two kinds of love, the love of the body, which is base and crude, and the love of intelligence and goodness.
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Yoshida-san, I'm embarrassed by this crude interruption.
Synonyms
309
6.4
Containing rude sexual words
280
2.3
Very unpleasant and making you feel sick or disgusted
90
4.7
Containing rude or offensive language
65
4.7
Words or jokes that are rude and about sex
43
6.7
Not acceptable in public because it is offensive or sexual
33
6.2
Sexually rude and offensive to many people
33
7.4
Sexually offensive or indecent in a way that shocks people
30
4.6
Something that makes people feel dislike or disgust
22
6.5
Being rude and indecent in words or behaviour
18
7.9
Slightly shocking because it talks about sex in a rude or funny way
17
8.6
Content about sex that is rude and shocking
15
5.3
Having a bad smell or taste that bothers you
14
4.2
Rude in behaviour or style, showing little politeness and bad taste
10
9.3
Talking about sex in a funny or rude way
7
7.1
Saying or doing something rude that upsets people
6
7.0
Stories or jokes that suggest sex and may make people feel embarrassed
3
9.5
Speech or behavior that is rude about sex to make people laugh
1
7.3
Crude and rude, often about sex or the body
1
7.7
A little impolite because it talks about sex, often in a funny or daring way
Content that shows sexual or violent details clearly
Antonyms
Compounds
How Offensive
Surface Forms
Etymology
Crude originally meant 'raw', and from that it came to mean 'unrefined' or not polite; a crude remark is like raw speech that shows little care or taste. So calling a joke crude explains why it can offend people.