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crass

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

[Latin crassus, dense.]

crassi·tude (--td, -tyd), crassness n.
crassly adv.

crass
Adjective
stupid and insensitive: the enquiry is crass and naive [Latin crassus thick]
crassly adv
crassness n
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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?"

crass
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Spanish crass [kræs] adjgrosero, maleducado
French crass [kræs] adjgrossier/ière, crasse
German crass [kræs] adjkrass;
(behaviour) → unfein, derb

Italian crass [kræs] adjcrasso/a

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Philander, that you should have evinced such a paucity of manly courage in the presence of one of the lower orders, and by your crass timidity have caused me to exert myself to such an unaccustomed degree in order that I might resume my discourse.
Macey, in deep disgust at the farrier's crass incompetence to apprehend the conditions of ghostly phenomena.
Enough that in the present case, as in millions, it was not the two halves of a perfect whole that confronted each other at the perfect moment; a missing counterpart wandered independently about the earth waiting in crass obtuseness till the late time came.
 
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