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Crass

//kɹæs// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Coarse; crude; unrefined or insensitive; lacking discrimination or taste.

    "You guys would rather be with someone else who’s equal to your status in life. Tiger Woods, or somebody. I comes across as crass, a Neanderthal, a babbling idiot sometimes. I like to show you that person. I like that person."

  2. 2
    Materialistic.
  3. 3
    Physically dense or thick.
  4. 4
    Lacking finesse; crude and obvious.

    "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."

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

Etymology

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

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