Word: crass
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...uttered crass equivocations designed to win the votes-and the contributions-of the Dixiecrat millionaires...
...wheels grind erratically. One it turns out smooth, polished, sterling and lustrous. Another rough, crude, callow, and crass. It requires knowledge as for a skilled trade, the application needed for a profession, the devotion for a cause. It demands all of your intellectual, physical, and emotional reserves, but its victories are sweet. Sweetly, Roger Allan Moore National College Director Young Republican National Federation...
...haired and irascible, Ross talked in an ear-splitting voice, a combination of rasp and quack. He often expressed himself in skid-row profanity, or by mere grunts or gap-toothed grins. He had the energy of a bull, and a bull-like charm. Though he often sounded as crass as a cymbal, he had an amazing sensitivity for words, a pouncing eye for the phony, a rigorous taste. He was a great editor...
...these times of paucity of respect for the past, let us not tamper with the grassy slopes that extend out toward the crass commercialism of Slough . . . If the first Duke of Wellington did not say this in so many words, then one of his post-cedents should have. HARRY HESS New York City...
Ballerina Hayden's violent wanton was a triumph; Hugh Laing played the mandarin with implacable simplicity. Without Bartok's superb score, Mandarin might have been merely a mediocre and rather crass affair, but the crashing, nervous music had kept the emotional pitch high and tight. As a result, the audience was too preoccupied to worry much about a few tag ends of murky symbolism that Choreographer Todd Bolender had worked in, e.g., a blind girl who wanders fitfully about the stage for most of the final scene...