crass
pronunciation
How to pronounce crass in British English:
UK [kræs]
How to pronounce crass in American English:
US [kræs]
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- Adjective:
- (of persons) so unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility
Word Origin
- crass
- crass: see grease
- crass (adj.)
- 1540s, from Middle French crasse (16c.), from Latin crassus "solid, thick, fat; dense." The literal sense always has been rare in English; meaning "grossly stupid" is recorded from 1650s, from French. Middle English had cras (adj.) "slow, sluggish, tardy" (mid-15c.), also crassitude "thickness." Related: Crassly; crassness.
Example
- 1. That in itself seems to me to be a slightly crass statement .
- 2. I do not propose to let an overweening , crass lieutenant .
- 3. She can be crass and overly sarcastic .
- 4. With the accident and the railway ministry 's crass response , public grievance is widespread .
- 5. Part of the problem is crass intransigence by the opposition .