How to Use crudity in a Sentence
crudity
noun- The movie's crudities were supposed to be funny, but they didn't make me laugh.
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All traces of sportscar crudity have been filtered out.
—Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 27 Nov. 2020
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To the ne’er-do-wells who scrawled a racist slur and other crudities on the marble likeness of abolitionist John Brown at the Quindaro ruins: Thank you.
—Mary Sanchez, kansascity, 19 Mar. 2018
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For all of her social-media antics and quotable crudity, Cardi B is not a cartoon.
—Chris Martins, Billboard, 21 Dec. 2017
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The crowd listed toward retirement age; Instead of candy, there were tables of fruit and crudities, and a cash bar.
—Karen Heller, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2019
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Charlottesville highlights how the problem with Trump is not the crudity of his expression.
—Rich Lowry, National Review, 18 Aug. 2017
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The most obvious conclusion is that the regime, for all the crudity of its politics, remains a master of the diplomatic stroke.
—The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
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His grandiosity, his resentments, and, at moments, his crudity were all on full display, but not in a way that is likely to alienate his supporters.
—Amy Davidson, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2017
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In writing this movie Stone was driven by both the self-gratification of indulging his contempt for America and his attraction to sordid crudity.
—Kyle Smith, National Review, 6 Mar. 2021
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Nixon’s fortunes declined markedly when people heard it all in real time — all those four-letter words, his disrespect for institutions, his crudity.
—Glenn Thrush, New York Times, 20 May 2017
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On some level, then, Twain and West appear intrigued by Trump for exactly the same reason: the way his rhetorical crudity innovates on previous political styles.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 23 Apr. 2018
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Or perhaps Trump’s twitter crudity is shocking given the sober comportment of his current would-be presidential opponents.
—Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 27 Aug. 2019
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The progressive party, many past presidents, the media, and Hollywood didn’t need to be schooled by Donald Trump on the arts of crudity, unprofessionalism, and unethical behavior.
—Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 27 Aug. 2019
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His bullying — his cruelty, crudity and personal insults — is admired because it is directed at other bullies.
—Michael Gerson, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Mar. 2018
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Kathleen is relentlessly animated and quick-witted, with thick tangerine hair, steely eyes, and an endearing personal idiolect that suggests both an autodidactic reading in philosophy and economics and the gusty crudity of the merchant marine.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, WIRED, 18 June 2018
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