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Synonyms for crassness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : kras |
| Phonetic Transcription : kræs |
Top 10 synonyms for crassness
Définition of crassness
Origin :- 1540s, from Middle French crasse (16c.), from Latin crassus "solid, thick, fat; dense." The literal sense always has been rare in English; meaning "grossly stupid" is recorded from 1650s, from French. Related: Crassly; crassness.
- As in vulgarity : noun coarseness
- As in coarseness : noun rudeness, vulgarity
- One observes the crassness and inconsistency of these statements.
- Extract from : « The Mediaeval Mind (Volume I of II) » by Henry Osborn Taylor
- Eugene was a little disgusted with what he considered the crassness of these people.
- Extract from : « The "Genius" » by Theodore Dreiser
- The blatancy, the crassness of the daily prints revolted him.
- Extract from : « The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story » by Various
- This class of criticism is born either of ignorance or of jealousy or of crassness.
- Extract from : « Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I (of II) » by Edmund Downey
- On your crassness superimposing the peculiar art of glosing in sleek phrases about Sin.
- Extract from : « Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., September 20, 1890 » by Various
- However, he is a good man—I really need just now to repeat that fact to myself—though mewed up in crassness.
- Extract from : « The Last Miracle » by M. P. Shiel
- Livingstone was so shocked and grieved by the crassness of such a statement that he really longed to take Crittenden in hand.
- Extract from : « Rough-Hewn » by Dorothy Canfield
- My father seemed disappointed at my crassness, and inwardly blamed himself for having asked me.
- Extract from : « Letters of Two Brides » by Honore de Balzac
Antonyms for crassness
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