crudeness
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]crudeness (countable and uncountable, plural crudenesses)
- (uncountable) The state of being crude
- (countable) A crude act or characteristic.
- 1960 September 17, Henry Steele Commager, “Is Ivy Necessary?”, in Saturday Review, volume 43, page 86:
- We will never eliminate the crudenesses, the anti-intellectual rules, the mucker pose in higher education, until we give the universities back to faculty and students.