Crass ?!

One of the words that we recently encountered and seems to have caused a slight discord amongst students is the word “Crass”. The examples might be too many, but they are worth checking out.

crass adjective
/kræs/

Definitions:

-Without considering how other people might feel

-Behaving in a stupid and offensive way which shows that you do not understand or care about other people’s feelings

-Having or indicating such grossness of mind as precludes delicacy and discrimination

-Being beneath one’s dignity

-Used as a derogatory intensifier

-Guided by or indicative of base or materialistic values

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

-Without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity

-Showing no interest in the finer things

Examples:
Warns union: Crass public spending cuts would wreak lasting social and economic damage.

It is crass to say that if consumers are tightening their belts, so should government. If citizens and businesses stop spending then the state must fill in the gap.

OTTAWA – A Liberal MP is alleging that “crass politics” have resulted in a Canadian Olympic retail logo that mirrors the federal Conservative party logo.

Economists are sometimes accused of crass materialism.

Manchester United’s Gary Neville was crass to suggest that footballers are worth their astronomical wages.

But it is crass to suggest that the head-spinning figures involved are justified, and particularly insensitive to come out with these comments at a time when unemployment levels have risen to a 13-year high, with 2.47 million people out of work.

Prosecutors’ reputation is once again put on the line over allegations of their crass handling of a child rape victim.

According to writer P. Sainath the crass inequality on display in our schools runs across all spheres of India’s brave new world and he says the schools only mirror this larger reality.

And yet, amid the gushing tributes paid to this hurriedly cobbled-together footage, it’s difficult to see this as anything other than a crass attempt by the music industry to cash in on the singer’s death.

Thankfully, the notion of a crass reality TV show to find his replacement in the band would rightly be met with outrage here.

Right-wing bloggers are fuming at his “crass insensitivity”. Some are comparing Mr. Obama’s words to President Bush continuing to read “My Pet Goat” to a class of children as he heard about the 9/11 attacks.

A government minister was today accused of being “crass” after he claimed British troops were in Afghanistan to stop asylum seekers fleeing to the UK, hours after five more troops were killed.

“Gordon Brown’s remarks are completely crass considering the Chilcot inquiry is in the process of finding the truth about why we were led into an illegal and bloody war in Iraq.”

Alan Johnson’s defense of his damaging and rather crass decision to sack Professor David Nutt contained errors of fact, as well as errors of judgment.

To say Murray had nothing to lose would be as crass as saying he played in a relaxed manner because that will never be the case for the British No 1 when there is a place in a final at stake.

The council should now be all the more determined to consult on delicate issues such as this so that they cannot be blamed for such crass behavior.

I won’t be crass enough to state what it is (being the gentleman I am), but it does rhyme with “duck foo”.

Graham Smith of campaign group Republic said: “It’s pretty crass for a multi-millionaire Prince to suggest that multimillionaire bonuses are trivial while most people are struggling to get through the recession.”

The once socialist Labor Party has become a party of crass capitalists, with little if any concern for the other: the poor, foreign workers, Israeli Arabs, factory employees.

The Histadrut, even with its crass favoritism, still defended workers’ rights.

Achmed (a comedy character) makes crass jokes about Catholic priests and says he gets his terrorist recruits “from the suicide hot line.”

How crass of him to suggest that it was like going into your boss’s office demanding a raise on the day the company declares bankruptcy.

“The Government’s conduct in this extraordinary tale is as crass as it is incompetent. For a Government nurtured and cradled in spin I find this lapse baffling.”

Meanwhile, there is crass calculation in putting forward a 45-year-old female Conservative MP, a mother, to administer the death blow.

Well done to all those fans who tried to persuade others that attacking the Owners on a personal level was crass and undignified.

Would it be too crass of me to say I hope he goes to Vietnam and dies?

Today we forgive him and all his crass attempts at marketing his world title fight. Everyone makes mistakes.

He should also put an end to the crass and outrageous agreement that he made with the British Government that the killer, if found, will be tried in Libya.

DiPietro has borrowed liberally from “Deathtrap” and “Sleuth” and other classics of the genre and added ineffective attempts to skewer the world of high art, seen here as crass merchandising run by agents and public relations.

How can the inspired beauty of his play co-exist with his crass boorishness?

He also engaged in crass intellectual name-dropping, ordered the staff about and waltzed out. Self-love is a grand thing.

She looked graceful and passionate. I’m sure she’s a fantastic tapper, but tap is unfortunately one of those dance styles where the difficult moves look easy and the things people want to see are considered crass in the tap world.

The movies are called crass, brutal and devoid of anything of value whatsoever.

No one is so crass to think the Spurs’ amazing run will thicken into empire; we have, after all, the Lakers and Celtics for that.

If you’re still wondering how the French courts could do something so crass as to call a religion a fraud, please, read some of the following.

But she hasn’t overdone it, hasn’t risked a crass reputation by chasing down every last endorsement nickel or showing up on every talk show.

We live in a time of crass materialism.

But this isn’t another crass commercialism of a fictional character.

He is wincing in a 1940s fleapit auditorium where they are showing a crass adaptation of one of his books.

How did birthdays become less like Thanksgiving and more like the crass side of Christmas?

The materialism was crass, everyone’s expectations had been aroused, and few people had been satisfied.

The primary motive is to free the self from a life that is necessarily rendered crass and degrading by society.

A crass remark

Crass behavior/ignorance

A crass error of judgment

He made crass comments about her worn-out clothes.

They have behaved with crass insensitivity.

A crass misrepresentation of the facts

Synonyms:
Coarse, obscene, crude, indecent, tasteless, gauche, obnoxious, indecorous, indelicate, unpolished, impertinent, ungracious, philistine, asinine, blundering, boorish, bovine, churlish, dense, doltish, gross, indelicate, inelegant, loutish, lowbrow, lumpish, oafish, obtuse, raw, rough, rude, stupid, uncouth, unrefined, vulgar, witless

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