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crudity

[ kroo-di-tee ]

/ ˈkru dɪ ti /

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noun, plural cru·di·ties for 2.

the state or quality of being crude.

something crude.

Origin of crudity

1375–1425; late Middle English crudite < Latin crūditās. See crude, -ity

OTHER WORDS FROM crudity

un·cru·di·ty, noun, plural un·cru·di·ties.

Words nearby crudity

crud, cruddy, crude, crude oil, cruden, crudity, crudités, crudo, cruel, cruel and unusual punishment, cruel to be kind

Example sentences from the Web for crudity

I suppose the reasonable Anti-Socialist will hardly maintain it seriously with that crudity.

New Worlds For Old |Herbert George Wells
When one enters a cathedral close he feels that he is in a land that frowns on the crudity of change.

Humanly Speaking |Samuel McChord Crothers
I play upon his vanity, scoffing at the crudity of his plans of revenge.

Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist |Alexander Berkman
Then Winckelmann and his successors triumphed over it for a while,—showed at least the crudity of that statement.

The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 76, February, 1864 |Various

The opening of Marcion's Gospel is more free from abruptness and crudity than that of Luke.

Supernatural Religion, Vol. II. (of III) |Walter Richard Cassels