While his young, strident opponents flung themselves forward with bone-crunching crudeness, he collected their callowness calmly, and guided it out of the ring.

BBC: The life of a sumo wrestler

Some turn you off from an author entirely due to lewdness, crudeness, or endless and shameless hawking of their own wares.

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It was a rough sketch it could only be so, given the crudeness of the instrument but it contained some part of a likeness.

NEWYORKER: The Limner

Thurber's childlike drawings may survive in popular memory more indelibly than his prose, and it is their very crudeness that makes them so disarming.

ECONOMIST: Letters

The crudeness of the extremists' threats is not helping them either.

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