How to Use crudity in a Sentence

crudity

noun
  • The movie's crudities were supposed to be funny, but they didn't make me laugh.
  • Yet Burr never stoops to crudity.
    — Bob Strauss, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Mar. 2026
  • For all of her social-media antics and quotable crudity, Cardi B is not a cartoon.
    — Chris Martins, Billboard, 21 Dec. 2017
  • During scenes at the duke’s palace, Rigoletto’s sneering crudity barely masked his hatred for the court.
    — New York Times, 2 Jan. 2022
  • The crowd listed toward retirement age; Instead of candy, there were tables of fruit and crudities, and a cash bar.
    — Karen Heller, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2019
  • The most obvious conclusion is that the regime, for all the crudity of its politics, remains a master of the diplomatic stroke.
    — The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
  • His grandiosity, his resentments, and, at moments, his crudity were all on full display, but not in a way that is likely to alienate his supporters.
    — Amy Davidson, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2017
  • Nixon’s fortunes declined markedly when people heard it all in real time — all those four-letter words, his disrespect for institutions, his crudity.
    — Glenn Thrush, New York Times, 20 May 2017
  • His bullying — his cruelty, crudity and personal insults — is admired because it is directed at other bullies.
    — Michael Gerson, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Or perhaps Trump’s twitter crudity is shocking given the sober comportment of his current would-be presidential opponents.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 27 Aug. 2019
  • In writing this movie Stone was driven by both the self-gratification of indulging his contempt for America and his attraction to sordid crudity.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 6 Mar. 2021
  • Today’s targeting of successful Asian-American kids lacks the crudity of a Jim Crow lunch counter or a whites-only drinking fountain.
    — William McGurn, WSJ, 12 July 2021
  • Everything else was affected by its gravitational pull and drawn into the work of dilating it further—even the firms rumored to be at the farthest remove from the crudity, even negative emissions technologies and the market on which their credits circulated.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Kathleen is relentlessly animated and quick-witted, with thick tangerine hair, steely eyes, and an endearing personal idiolect that suggests both an autodidactic reading in philosophy and economics and the gusty crudity of the merchant marine.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, WIRED, 18 June 2018
  • And thus the audience is stuck with this scenario, which complicates in intensity and with a linguistic relish that has its funny moments (for some, anyway), but also features a lot of crudity that really wrenches you away from the typical landscape of the classy, urban American farce.
    — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 27 Apr. 2026

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