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(of persons) so unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility- crass commercialism
- There's class and then there's crass.
- not so crass as to admit her true intentions
- She considers most people to be too crass to appreciate her art.
- Nobody down here ever wants to be rich-rich, for that, of course, would be crass and vulgar.Robert Penn Warren -- All the King's Men
- Does the fact look crass[698] and material, threatening to degrade thy theory of spirit?Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
- I have come to think of marriage as dishonorable, a crass trade-off rather than a free gift.Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
- I mean, it seems so crass to address envelopes simply to 'Janine' and 'Claude.'Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
- But when one is deeply moved, one has the courage to say things that may sound crass and irreverent, but are more solemn than authorized words of piety.Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
- If she had occasion to find fault, she did it coolly and with perfect politeness, which the defaulter felt to be a bigger insult than crassness.D.H. Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers
- Imagine being such a brilliant philosopher and yet such a crass idiot!Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
- It seems an odd and crass way to treat your saviors, Your Honor.Alexs Pate -- Amistad
- It is our duty to shield her from the crass material world as much as possible. ur affectionate Uncle, 'Maury L. Bascom "What do you want to do aboutit?William Faulkner -- The Sound and the Fury
- I leave that crass behavior to my gusty brethren in the north.Rick Riordan -- The House of Hades
- I always found him crass and terribly nouveau dieu, personally.Rick Riordan -- The Mark of Athena
- Thus it is only the crass layman who thinks that we put up stone walls.Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
- Only the crassest ignoramus can still hold to the old-fashioned notion that seeing is believing.Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
- Too much color and it begins looking crass.Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker
- I know it's really cheesy—crass even—to compare my being dumped to the accident that killed Mia's family, but I can't help it.Gayle Forman -- Where She Went
- She knew that behind their crass jokes and lascivious grins, they were terrified of Masooma.Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed