He was crudely bold. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : crude sugar. ,a crude summary. ,crude behavior. ,a crude answer. From Dictionary.com.
We underline the modifier "crude" because crudely is how the political system deals with policy challenges. From Wordnik.com. [The GOP Can Outsmart ObamaCare] Reference
'Yes; putting it crudely, that is exactly what I do mean.'. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman Intervenes] Reference
He had forced away the notion of crudely and crassly pitting one of them against the other. From Wordnik.com. [Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves]
That is to say crudely, police agents and activists. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks By The President And The First Lady At Roundtable] Reference
And when all that stabilizes into some kind of crudely homeostatic planetary ecology, we send human beings. From Wordnik.com. [Spin] Reference
And his answer, to put it crudely, is. From Wordnik.com. [EconLog: February 2005 Archives] Reference
"Luella's Coffee Stand" kind of crudely written with a black pen that was almost out of ink. From Wordnik.com. [billingsgazette.com] Reference
We can crudely estimate their retirement benefits. From Wordnik.com. [The Seduction Of Surpluses] Reference
Privatization plans are only crudely formulated so far. From Wordnik.com. [The New Russian Question] Reference
Free beer tomorrow, promised the crudely formed letters. From Wordnik.com. [When College Students Live Next Door] Reference
The memo was crudely titled "Hillary Clinton (D-Punjab).". From Wordnik.com. [Inside Obama’s Dream Machine] Reference
Still, shame on you, Mayor Dinkins, for behaving so crudely. From Wordnik.com. [Trivial Pursuit] Reference
"I'm afraid I'm putting it a little crudely, but you get the idea.". From Wordnik.com. [Unwise Child] Reference
But in no instance was the painted face crudely drawn or badly coloured. From Wordnik.com. [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference
Death and the enemy are to be mocked, often in crudely psychosexual terms. From Wordnik.com. [Fear At The Front] Reference
And both vehicles were rather crudely finished by automotive show standards. From Wordnik.com. [The Chinese are coming?] Reference
But the benefits are being crudely offset by a lot of technology-inspired waste. From Wordnik.com. [Technology In Reverse] Reference
It works almost as crudely as that of the stage works on the theatrical dramatist. From Wordnik.com. [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference
Often the opportunity is crudely given, or too liberally offered; and that offends. From Wordnik.com. [Stories to Tell to Children] Reference
Even crudely manufactured devices can be far more deadly than Soviet-era land mines. From Wordnik.com. [Unholy Allies] Reference
Today Ricci shows 4-year-olds a crudely animated "Dora" episode slated for next season. From Wordnik.com. [Guilt Free TV] Reference
Less crudely, there is a view within the army that Afghanistan is vital for two reasons. From Wordnik.com. [Dilemmas in the Security Review] Reference
Around it the refrigerator box cockpit is an array of crudely drawn dials and screens. From Wordnik.com. [Capsule] Reference
With 33 billion in capital reserves, "we have the gunpowder, to put it crudely," he says. From Wordnik.com. [More Than Meets The Eye] Reference
It's been crudely sharpened on a stone, she guesses, but the knife has held its edge. From Wordnik.com. [Independence Day] Reference
As the list of books above suggests, theories of the present crisis crudely split into two camps. From Wordnik.com. [‘Booking’ the Economy] Reference
I can say this very crudely to you, a lot of those songs back then were not really written in my mind. From Wordnik.com. [John Mellencamp: A New Recording, An Old Sound] Reference
Moral choice systems have been a stepping stone, but can only ever model human behaviour very crudely. From Wordnik.com. [The player: making moral choices] Reference
Worse, throughout the cold war, figure skating was also the sport where politics played out most crudely. From Wordnik.com. [Our Sport Has Gangrene] Reference
In a crudely edited, taped address to the nation on Saturday night, Yeltsin took his troubles to the people. From Wordnik.com. [Yeltsin Defiant] Reference
The orchestras of the Native African were made up largely of crudely constructed drums of one sort or another. From Wordnik.com. [Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study] Reference
Deaths in World War I and World War II are crudely reckoned at 10 million and as much as 60 million, respectively. From Wordnik.com. [The Future Of Freedom] Reference
In early postwar decades, compensation increases crudely paralleled productivity gains — improvements in efficiency. From Wordnik.com. [The Quagmire of Inequality] Reference
Marilynne Robinson was articulate on how the New Atheism erases the human by treating us as crudely material entities. From Wordnik.com. [A dead end on the God debate] Reference
Some influence moves to markets: those impersonal crowds of buyers and sellers that governments can manage only crudely. From Wordnik.com. [NOT SO SUPER ANYMORE] Reference
Many Rhymes were used to convey to children the common sense truths of life, hidden beneath their comic, crudely cut coats. From Wordnik.com. [Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study] Reference
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