crassitude

But to lead anything on a large scale, without a continual winding-up by his companion, the fibrous Mrs. Romulus, was beyond the crassitude of

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 Various

Thus you estrange the crassitude of an ignorant democracy still more from the intelligence of the educated classes by combining it with the most selfish and abject of all the apprehensions that are ascribed to aristocracy and wealth.

The Parisians — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Thus you estrange the crassitude of an ignorant democracy still more from the intelligence of the educated classes by combining it with the most selfish and abject of all the apprehensions that are ascribed to aristocracy and wealth.

The Parisians — Volume 02 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

If they are applied to the extremities of the nervous fibrils, or in such quantity as to increase the length or crassitude of them, the body becomes at the same time enlarged, and its growth is increased, as well as its deficiences repaired.

Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

Here, from a response to my aggressive critique of Andre Alexis’s delightfully hypocritical, aggressive, personal attack on reviewers he claims produce instead of criticism only ’shallow, self-aggrandizing rhetoric’ comes this outsized crassitude:

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Here, from a response to my aggressive critique of Andre Alexis’s delightfully hypocritical, aggressive, personal attack on reviewers he claims produce instead of criticism only ’shallow, self-aggrandizing rhetoric’ comes this outsized crassitude:

Wood a Realist? Really. 2010

Here, from a response to my aggressive critique of Andre Alexis’s delightfully hypocritical, aggressive, personal attack on reviewers he claims produce instead of criticism only ’shallow, self-aggrandizing rhetoric’ comes this outsized crassitude:

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This living ring may now embrace or absorb a nutritive particle of the fluid in which it swims; and by drawing it into its pores, or joining it by compression to its extremities, may increase its own length or crassitude, and by degrees the living ring may become a living tube.

Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin Samuel Butler 1868

This living ring may now embrace or absorb a nutritive particle of the fluid, in which it swims; and by drawing it into its pores, or joining it by compression to its extremities, may increase its own length or crassitude; and by degrees the living ring may become a living tube.

Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

"There are three things that no man but a fool lends, or, having lent, is not in the most helpless state of mental crassitude if he ever hopes to get back again.

Umbrellas and Their History William Sangster 1848