Word: crass
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...speculation that Hanoi may be facilitating the flow of cheap heroin into South Viet Nam as a means of demoralizing American forces while picking up considerable foreign exchange. With the exception of a few teenage "cowboys" and bar girls, Vietnamese shun heroin, which they regard as declassé and crass compared to opium. Virtually all of it goes into American bloodstreams. In efforts to get Saigon to clamp down on traffickers, the U.S. has already offended the sensitive pride of Vietnamese sovereignty by insisting on stricter customs inspections...
Arthur MacEwan, another assistant professor, said, in answer, "Seldom have I heard such a crass defense of elitism...
...inequity between rich and poor candidates would continue. But by anchoring every political flight of fancy to the crass facts of money, the Krakowski formula would be a form of truth in packaging, a modest destroyer of the adman's theatrical illusions whereby so many candidates are elected...
...long-distance phone, that sort of generalization would sound hollow, crass and unbearably phony, even at 450 a minute. But in a card−well, it resounds...
...turning the neurasthenic homemaker into a Mr. Belvedere, a kind of prissy know-it-all. "I must remain a kind of male Jewish mother, manipulating others as hysterical people do," says Randall. At the same time, he adds, Klugman has had to resist a depiction of Oscar as "excessively crass and vulgar, an unattractive middle-aged girl chaser. In the play, he is really a sensitive man. His sloppiness is merely neurotic...