crude
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(s) not carefully or expertly made
- managed to make a crude splint
- a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them
- rough carpentry
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(s) conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
- coarse language
- a crude joke
- crude behavior
- an earthy sense of humor
- a revoltingly gross expletive
- a vulgar gesture
- full of language so vulgar it should have been edited
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(a) not refined or processed
- unrefined ore
- crude oil
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(s) belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness
- the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man
- primitive movies of the 1890s
- primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains
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(s) devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment
- the blunt truth
- the crude facts
- facing the stark reality of the deadline
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(s) not processed or subjected to analysis
- raw data
- the raw cost of production
- only the crude vital statistics
Nouns
- (n) a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons crude oil, fossil oil, petroleum, rock oil, oil,