Antonyms for crassly
| Grammar : Adv |
| Spell : kras |
| Phonetic Transcription : kræs |
Definition of crassly
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 obtrusively : adv obviously
- As in rudely : adv impolitely
- In order to apply the severest test the query should be a crassly foolish one.
- Extract from : « Uruguay » by W. H. Koebel
- It was strange that hitherto he should have been so crassly blind.
- Extract from : « Lochinvar » by S. R. Crockett
- He says she is too crassly material to appreciate his knowledge of chemistry.
- Extract from : « I Walked in Arden » by Jack Crawford
- It represented the legal ethics of a society on most of its sides brutally and crassly individualistic.
- Extract from : « German Culture Past and Present » by Ernest Belfort Bax
- Even scientific men are sometimes as crassly incredulous as the uncultured masses.
- Extract from : « Mythical Monsters » by Charles Gould
- The heir was as woe begone of face and as crassly sombre of raiment as even the most captious could have desired.
- Extract from : « The Return of Peter Grimm » by David Belasco
- Here was a government so crassly wicked and purposely blind as to profess neutrality and yet refuse to fight our battles!
- Extract from : « Recollections » by David Christie Murray
- In short, a born liar, credulous and barbarous, crassly ignorant and inconceivably stubborn.'
- Extract from : « Ghetto Comedies » by Israel Zangwill
- They were not so crassly or grossly materialistic as the present age undoubtedly is.
- Extract from : « Winning His "W" » by Everett Titsworth Tomlinson
Synonyms for crassly
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