crassness

The lighter sort of malignity, turneth but to a crassness, or frowardness, or aptness to oppose, or difficulties, or the like; but the deeper sort, to envy and mere mischief.

And, as she stood in the doorway a moment later, her eyes taking in one by one, the murky windows, the dirty floor, the unwashed dishes, the tumbled bed, the rusty, grease bespattered stove choked with cold ashes, she told herself hotly that it was not the dirt nor even the desperate crassness that was smothering her joy.

There is crassness, boorishness - in Filipino, kabastusan - in the way an insult is delivered.

They will read what theater managers thought of such craftiness, and hear from fans as they applauded creativity or condemned crassness. They will see how these films caused a grass-roots movement to gain control of Hollywood-and why they were "forbidden" for fifty years.

He said: "For all his crassness and boastfulness I think underneath there's somebody rather warm and generous.

I got a lot of angry tweets and texts about this supposed 'crassness' and the only reason I'm repeating the detail now is on the basis that the world-saving vegan mob probably don't read newspapers for fear of a poor tree giving its life.

Whether their silence is because of crassness or cowardice, it can no longer be tolerated or rewarded with Americans' votes.

Usually, the crassness of politics and power agitates you and the refinement in art and literature soothes.

The crassness of even considering bringing Katie back from the dead tramples all over what was a powerful and highly sensitive storyline - Liz and Jim losing a premature baby in 1992.

Since Pemra's notice is for a period of 30 days, it is highly likely that he will once again be seen spreading crassness on TV.

His dismissal of Africa as full of 'shi***le' countries displays not only his ignorance but his unbelievable crassness.

Produced by the Tikvah Fund, Rabbi Soloveichik's lectures, each clocking in at about an hour, may very well be the cure for the crassness corroding all talk of politics these days, and a reassurance, if one is still needed, that our common enterprise is about more than the trifles served up on cable TV and social media.