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crass

 (krăs)
adj. crass·er, crass·est
So crude and unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility.

[Latin crassus, dense.]

crass′i·tude′ (-ĭ-to͞od′, -tyo͞od′), crass′ness n.
crass′ly adv.
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crass

(kræs)
adj
stupid; gross
[C16: from Latin crassus thick, dense, gross]
ˈcrassly adv
ˈcrassness, ˈcrassiˌtude n
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crass

(kræs)

adj. -er, -est.
without refinement or sensitivity; gross.
[1535–45; < Latin crassus thick]
crass′ly, adv.
crass′ness, n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.crass - (of persons) so unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility
unrefined - (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth; "how can a refined girl be drawn to such an unrefined man?"
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crass

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crass

adjective
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Translations
شَديدغَبيواضِح جدا
hloupýhrubýnecitlivývyložený
grovstupidufølsom
karkearöyhkeä
durvavaskos
alger, gróflegurheimskurtilfinningasljór
labai akivaizdusnesupratingasnetaktiškasvisiškai kvailas
muļķīgsnejūtīgspilnīgsredzams
dichtgrofmaterialistischongevoeligonsensibel
vyložený
ahmakahmakçaaptalaptalcaduygusuz

crass

[kræs] ADJ (pej) (= extreme) [stupidity] → extremo; [mistake] → craso; (= coarse) [person, behaviour] → grosero, maleducado; [performance] → malo, desastroso
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

crass

[ˈkræs] adj [stupidity] → crasse; [insensitivity] → grossier/ière; [commercialism] → grossier/ière; [remark, comment] → grossier/ière
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

crass

adj (+er) (= stupid, unsubtle)krass; ignorance alsohaarsträubend; (= coarse) behaviourunfein, derb; must you be so crass about it?müssen Sie sich so krass ausdrücken?
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crass

[kræs] adjcrasso/a
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

crass

(krӕs) adjective
1. very obvious or very great. a crass mistake.
2. stupid.
3. insensitive.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
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The division of womankind into mothers and the childless can also bring out the crassest of cliches when extreme sensitivity is required.
In its crassest forms, it not only seems unbreakable but comes with a breathtaking lack of shame over its paraded grotesqueries of entitlement, aristocratic airs and blind ambition.
Though refraining from the crassest expressions of xenophobia and authoritarianism, Abe's deceptively polite right-wing politics may be heading in the same direction.
Special praise must go to Olivia Sloyan, who proves a ditzy delight as beautician Tia, but it's a very game Philip Olivier who makes the most impact here, with his cardboard gangster, Tony, falling foul to some of the play's crassest and, indeed, funniest moments.
But somehow President Donald Trump managed to add a day to our calendar of infamy, and it may be the crassest yet.
It is clear from the foul language of the authors that the statement could not have come from the former President, but from the motley group of loud and rude characters whose brief seems to be to deny all and anything said against the former PDP government and to do so in the crassest possible language.
On a wider scale, the Brits made one of the crassest political errors of all time by voting us out of Europe, but then the Americans chose the awful, self-obsessed Donald Trump to be their president, while continental European nations edge ever closer to intolerant right-wing governance.Voters and parties may deny it, but I will eat my hat if anti-immigrant sentiments did not influence these decisions.
Named for a saint and championed by the crassest crusaders of commerce, today isn't much of a simcha for Jews.
If the club's director of football really does believe African players "cause mayhem" when not in the team and that "they can have a bad attitude", it is, at best, the crassest type of stereotyping.
goes well beyond them and incorporates a "cult of contempt" that may make him close, if a comparison must be made, to the crassest, most distasteful of Fassbinder's characters.
If this is one's model for the order of society, it becomes easier to understand why people who claim to be paragons of morality could cast their votes for a thrice-married philanderer even after a video recording showed him using the crassest of language to assert his right to sexually assault women.