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Antonyms for crudity
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : kroo-di-tee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkru dɪ ti |
Definition of crudity
Origin :- early 14c., from Middle French crudité (14c.) and directly from Latin cruditatem (nominative cruditas), from crudus (see crude).
- As in indecency : noun obscenity, vulgarity
- As in rudeness : noun impoliteness
- As in vulgarity : noun coarseness
- As in roughness : noun coarseness
- As in coarseness : noun rudeness, vulgarity
- The airs and graces they assumed did but emphasise their crudity.
- Extract from : « Cleo The Magnificent » by Louis Zangwill
- But excuse the audacity and the crudity of my speculations—it only proves my interest.
- Extract from : « The Tragic Muse » by Henry James
- She seemed to him, in all this, an extraordinary mixture of innocence and crudity.
- Extract from : « Daisy Miller » by Henry James
- This retreat seemed to him romantic and pleasing, in spite of its crudity.
- Extract from : « The Dead Command » by Vicente Blasco Ibez
- The crudity of the method is even regarded as a proof of its morality.
- Extract from : « Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) » by Sir Leslie Stephen
- It strikes you as the crudity of a race not quite civilized.
- Extract from : « The Sleuth of St. James's Square » by Melville Davisson Post
- But it was not the crudity, but the power, of the new-comer that impressed people.
- Extract from : « Heroines of Service » by Mary Rosetta Parkman
- What are the elements which produce the atmosphere of crudity that stands for Millerstown?
- Extract from : « Atlantic Narratives » by Mary Antin
- And this faith, in all its crudity, exists at the present day.
- Extract from : « The Non-religion of the Future: A Sociological Study » by Jean-Marie Guyau
- Crudity or deficiency of the verb characterizes the speech of all primitive peoples.
- Extract from : « Our Southern Highlanders » by Horace Kephart
Synonyms for crudity
- acrimony
- asperity
- audacity
- bad manners
- barbarity
- bawdiness
- bluntness
- boldness
- boorishness
- brass
- bumpiness
- callousness
- cheek
- coarseness
- crassness
- crudeness
- crudity
- discourtesy
- disdain
- disrespect
- drunkenness
- earthiness
- effrontery
- evil
- filthiness
- foulness
- grossness
- gruffness
- harshness
- immodesty
- impertinence
- impropriety
- impudence
- impurity
- incivility
- indecency
- indecorum
- indelicacy
- insolence
- intrusiveness
- irregularity
- irritability
- lewdness
- licentiousness
- misbehavior
- nerve
- obscenity
- offense
- offensiveness
- officiousness
- outrageousness
- poor taste
- pornography
- profaneness
- profanity
- rawness
- ribaldry
- roughness
- rudeness
- shamelessness
- sharpness
- smut
- smuttiness
- tactlessness
- uncouthness
- unevenness
- ungraciousness
- unkindness
- unmannerliness
- unrefinement
- unseemliness
- vileness
- vulgarity
- wooliness
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