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.
• All traces of sportscar crudity have been filtered out.
  — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 27 Nov. 2020
• 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
• For all of her social-media antics and quotable crudity, Cardi B is not a cartoon.
  — Chris Martins, Billboard, 21 Dec. 2017
• 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
• Charlottesville highlights how the problem with Trump is not the crudity of his expression.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 18 Aug. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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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