Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective So crude and unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Thick; coarse; gross; not thin nor fine: now chiefly used of immaterial things.
- Gross; stupid; obtuse: as, crass ignorance.
- noun A species of sea-anemone, Bunodes crassicornis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Gross; thick; dense; coarse; not elaborated or refined.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
coarse ;crude ; notrefined orsensible - adjective
materialistic - adjective
dense
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of persons) so unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Many of the Reformers (by my reading of them) condemned the notion of real presence (and transubstantiation) because they interpreted it as a fleshy and physical presence (what you call crass and I might call immoderate realist).
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That view is upheld by LA Times columnist Michael Hiltzik, who asks what he calls the crass question - "What is Apple Inc's plan if CEO Steve Jobs dies?"
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That view is upheld by LA Times columnist Michael Hiltzik, who asks what he calls the crass question - "What is Apple Inc's plan if CEO Steve Jobs dies?"
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That view is upheld by LA Times columnist Michael Hiltzik, who asks what he calls the crass question - "What is Apple Inc's plan if CEO Steve Jobs dies?"
British Blogs 2009
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That view is upheld by LA Times columnist Michael Hiltzik, who asks what he calls the crass question - "What is Apple Inc's plan if CEO Steve Jobs dies?"
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That view is upheld by LA Times columnist Michael Hiltzik, who asks what he calls the crass question - "What is Apple Inc's plan if CEO Steve Jobs dies?"
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Liefeld engaging in crass commercialism and embracing gimmicks?
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It has been an exercise in crass populism and political stupidity almost without equal in the Telegraph.
Telegraphing Newmania 2007
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Solutions that seem pompous and crass from the Conservative think tank.
Family Misfortunes Newmania 2007
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It has been an exercise in crass populism and political stupidity almost without equal in the Telegraph.
Archive 2007-07-29 Newmania 2007
cravinforclavin commented on the word crass
but this is a song about death.
December 7, 2006