Definitions
an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement
Word origin
Borrowed from Middle French crudité, from Latin crūditās. By surface analysis, crude + -ity. Doublet of crudité.
Used in a sentence
“What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.”
“Veteran GOP ad maker Jim Innocenzi had no qualms about the coded crudity, calling it “hilarious.””
“For there is no meat whatſoeuer, though otherwiſe wholeſome and good, but if it be vnſeaſonably taken, or immoderatly vſed, more then the ſtomack can well beare, will ingender crudity, and doe much harme.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Rawness or vulgarity”7 letters
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