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• n  the quality of being crass--devoid of refinement

• But impervious to critics and any history except the present, my students offer no apologies for Twain's crassness or the .
• But as time went on, and the circus kept coming back to town, there seemed to be some kind of method to the crassness.
• Though some hard-core comixcenti object to its crassness, I find the San Diego con's big-tent mixture of graphic literature with its more commercial relations, video games, movies .

• crassitude

News & Articles

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• A New Low: Atlanta radio station spoofs Gleason
  What I heard Monday morning takes the cake, the ice cream and every other prize one can offer for crassness and tastelessness.
  June 17, 2013 - FOX 8 New Orleans

Quotes

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• Charles Grant in McClatchy Washington Bureau
  If the French president gets results in the Middle East, said Charles Grant, an expert on European issues at the Center for European Reform, "people will forget this brashness, this crassness, this rudeness."
• Boris Johnson in guardian.co.uk
  Johnson replied that there was "a key difference between crassness [or] getting it wrong ...... and outright dishonesty", and defended the action taken.
• Bob Costas in Bleacher Report
  Incivility, boorishness and crassness are everywhere in the idiot culture that we live in,says veteran sportscaster Bob Costas. "And yet we celebrate all this as edginess. This behavior is encouraged."