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  • adjective superlative form of crass: most crass.

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Examples

  • What I do resent is the sense of creeping majoritarianism, of intellectual levelling based on the crassest of Blut-und-Boden stereotypes.

    Hungary: One-party rule | Editorial 2011

  • And yet Sarkozy, likely for the crassest of political reasons, has ignited a national debate that simply reeks of ethnic nationalism, including fractious town hall meetings where such divisiveness is incubated.

    "A circus of nationalists" 2009

  • The alarmists have built a positive political feedback political system where an existing inclination to bureaucratic control among many technocrats and politicians has been given a nudge by the opportunity offered by alarmism – a system in which the intellectual and economic underpinnings are built upon the crassest forms of rent-seeking by business and academia and in all defiance of common-sense.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Thanks 2009

  • Minority Leader McConnell in an interview calls the order the "crassest" political move he's ever seen.

    Obama's 'Gangster Politics' Kimberley A. Strassel 2011

  • And yet Sarkozy, likely for the crassest of political reasons, has ignited a national debate that simply reeks of ethnic nationalism, including fractious town hall meetings where such divisiveness is incubated.

    Archive 2009-12-01 2009

  • It doesn't enclose visitors in a cocoon of the crassest commerce.

    Arena Stage's new building: a brilliant addition, and a challenge, to the city Philip Kennicott 2010

  • Last night, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia returned for its new season and as usual, the comedy's crassest laughs were as plus-sized as star/series creator Rob McElhenney, who has famously packed on 50 extra pounds to play up Mac's attempt at "cultivating mass."

    Watercooler: It's Always So Wrong in Philadelphia 2011

  • Before this BBC reporter can give the results of the race (?), this apparently awesome bettor lets the whole room know he's in the money ... in the crassest way possible.

    BBC Report Interrupted By Screaming Gambler (VIDEO) 2010

  • They taught them to replace the idealism of youth with the crassest self-pleading.

    The Golden State's Me Generation Peter Robinson 2010

  • They taught them to replace the idealism of youth with the crassest self-pleading.

    The Golden State's Me Generation Peter Robinson 2010

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