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crass
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    She knew that behind their crass jokes and lascivious grins, they were terrified of Masooma.†  (source)
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    And then I saw her make the Sign of the Crass and walk back to her sisters within.†  (source)
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    Imagine being such a brilliant philosopher and yet such a crass idiot!†  (source)
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    He waits for Neumann Two to come around the truck and say something crass, to spoil it, but he doesn't, and neither does Bernd, maybe they don't see her at all, maybe this one pure thing will escape their defilement, and the girl sings as she swings, a high song that Werner recognizes, a counting song that girls jumping rope in the alley behind Children's House used to sing, Eins, zwei, Polizei, drei, vier, Offizier, and how he would like to join her, push her higher and higher, singfiinf; sechs, alte Hex, sieben, acht, gute Nacht!†  (source)
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    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.†  (source)
    standard suffix: 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.
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    To put it crassly.†  (source)
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    Only the crassest ignoramus can still hold to the old-fashioned notion that seeing is believing.†  (source)
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    And the Baron thought; Let us see now how the Emperors errand boy gets across whatever message he carries without ever being so crass as to speak it right out.†  (source)
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    And even Dan was appalled at the crassness with which Dudley Wiggin directed the Christmas Pageant—and Dan was more tolerant of amateur theatrical performances than the average Gravesend citizen.†  (source)
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    The burn-scarred, crassly bearded face was the wreck of the eldest brother's life, and the gentle eyes looking out through that monstrous corruption of flesh were to Hodge like tokens brought back from the dead as a sign.†  (source)
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    He did not even have to be told in words that he had surely found the lost Lucas Burch; it seemed to him now that only crassest fatuousness and imbecility should have kept unaware.†  (source)
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    She did nothing as crass as that, but she apparently told Tempelsman in front of the tour guide—who reported it to the newspapers, of course—that she wished she owned the house and everything in it.†  (source)
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    Then, as though he had suddenly become exhausted—or, rather, depleted by the demands made on him by a world greedy for the fruit of his intellect—he began to massage the side of his face with the flat of his hand, removing, with unconscious crassness, a bit of sleep from one eye.†  (source)
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