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n. - An unpolished unrefined quality; An impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement; A wild or unrefined state.

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  • The whole town was famous for its crudeness
  • The crudeness of frontier dwellings depressed her
  • This smacks of prejudice and the "crudeness" Zerner seems to spot in Antal more aptly designates his own approach.
  • This kind of recklessness, this kind of crudeness.
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