crass

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That view is upheld by LA Times columnist Michael Hiltzik, who asks what he calls the crass question - "What is Apple Inc's plan if CEO Steve Jobs dies?"

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  1. adjective So crude and unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility.

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  • That view is upheld by LA Times columnist Michael Hiltzik, who asks what he calls the crass question - "What is Apple Inc's plan if CEO Steve Jobs dies?" —  BBC News | Technology | World Edition
  • So I was at the gym this afternoon and on one of its many boxes was TNT, which was showing James Cameron's crude, crass, and in several respects rather diverting 1995 —  In The Company Of Glenn
  • Even after Perry apologized, Lily called her "crass" and said she modeled her style after Lily's own. —  Agent Bedhead
  • Perry, who remarked that she was a "skinnier version of Lily Allen," was criticized by Allen for having "crass" lyrics and not writing her own songs. —  VentureBeat
  • Hollywood sign was erected in 1923 (actually, it was then the "Hollywoodland" sign), it was decried as a crass attempt by Harry Chandler to market his newly-built real estate development of the same name. —  Design Observer: Main Posts
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  1. Latin crassus, dense.

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  1. = French crasse, Old French cras = Spanish craso = Portuguese Italian crasso = Danish kras, from Latin crassus, thick, dense, fat, solid, perhaps orig. *crattus, with sense of ‘thickly woven,’ and akin to cratis, a hurdle, and cartilago, cartilage: see crate and cartilage, and cf. crask. Connection with gross is very doubtful.
  2. Crass(icornis), the specific name.
 

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