How to Use crass in a Sentence

crass

adjective

• A few people seemed shocked by her crass comments.
• The attendees clapped at his applause lines and laughed at his mugging and jokes, no matter how crass.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2024
• Or consider how the same aggressive tactics that work in New York might come off as crass or even hostile in parts of Europe.
  — Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
• As is expected during fair week, partygoers gossiped with loose lips and a loud, crass collector did his best to be the center of attention.
  — George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 12 Oct. 2024
• Amer: Not to be crass, but that sounds a bit like a fart.
  — Pakinam Amer, Scientific American, 2 Dec. 2022
• Terry came across as gruff and crass on the phone that day.
  — Jessica Lucas, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2023
• Don was a blowhard, and about one in ten of his crass jokes were funny.
  — Sarah Miller, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2020
• Elvis would never have been so crass as to have fired Colonel from the stage.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 25 June 2022
• Sánchez refers to herself as loud and crass, and her writing proves it.
  — Keishel Williams, Washington Post, 17 July 2022
• For me, that shows that there is hope — and this could be a bit crass, but that there’s hope for White people.
  — Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2021
• There is a saying on Wall Street that is too crass to repeat here in detail.
  — Vineer Bhansali, Forbes, 2 July 2022
• But those lines are not as stark as the crass and hateful language on the recordings might lead many to conclude.
  — Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2022
• But as crass as that is, Sawant may in a sense only be channeling the people.
  — Danny Westneat, The Seattle Times, 2 June 2017
• Bar the odd bit of crass anti-gay banter among the students, the subject hardly comes up.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 9 Sep. 2022
• In crass times like these, the deep civility that powers his voice is a balm.
  — Frances Mayes, New York Times, 2 June 2017
• Some Democrats denounced it as a crass play, rooted in stereotype.
  — Maya King, New York Times, 10 June 2024
• There’s a fine line between funny and crass, and White never fails to respect it.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 11 Dec. 2021
• Paris on a gray day, when light is harmonized with its absence and nothing dares to be so crass as to flash.
  — Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
• The show is never crass and does not overpush its genuinely warm welcome from the work-weary.
  — Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 22 Apr. 2024
• To be sure, crass and hateful public figures are worthy of ridicule.
  — WIRED, 28 July 2023
• But the content that earned the greatest scrutiny is his crass jokes about children.
  — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023
• There’s a lot of winking and smirking between the two of them, which defuses the crass chauvinism that guides the whole play.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 24 July 2024
• Prince did a lot of bad work, not in a crass way, but not everything rises to the level of ‘Little Red Corvette.’ But that’s good in a way.
  — Connie Ogle, miamiherald, 23 May 2017
• Lanthimos ridicules mankind’s treachery in films that, scene by scene, are not provocative, just crass.
  — Armond White, National Review, 21 June 2024
• But when the singer went to tweet about the importance of our nation's independence, she was met with a crass response.
  — Devon Ivie, SELF, 5 July 2017
• But fans who witnessed it were troubled by the fan’s crass act after an emotional evening.
  — Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024
• In just under four minutes, smooth crooner drops the king of all four-letter words no less than 21 times during the crass breakup ballad.
  — Robbie Daw, Billboard, 14 Apr. 2023
• Those who are profiting off of record sales need a narrative that justifies their work as more than a crass cash grab.
  — Konstanze Frischen, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2021
• On Wednesday, however, the Ringer reported on crass remarks and jokes Mr. Richards had made on a podcast of his about eight years ago.
  — John Jurgensen, WSJ, 20 Aug. 2021
• Still, Greer is aware that some in the literary world might view his decision to write a sequel as uninspired — or worse, a crass money grab.
  — Alexandra Alter, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024