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Word entry · 5 letters

crass

Best crossword clue

"Tastelessly rude"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /kɹæs/Part of speech adjectiveSorted acrssStarts with CEnds with S1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. (of persons) so unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility

Word origin

From Middle English cras, craas, from Old French cras, from Latin crassus (“dense, thick, gross, fat, heavy”). Doublet of grease.

Used in a sentence

  • 8. They require that crass stupidities shall not be played upon the reader as “the craft of the woodsman, the delicate art of the forest,” by either the author or the people in the tale.
  • The Albanians have a world ranking of 58, but even a side of fairly modest talents would surely have taken advantage of the kind of crass mistakes that Scotland made on Friday.

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