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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

(Editor's note: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.)

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
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
And then I saw her make the Sign of the Crass and walk back to her sisters within.
Anne Rice -- Interview with the Vampire

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