Antonyms for crassly


Grammar : Adv
Spell : kras
Phonetic Transcription : kræs


Definition of crassly

Origin :
  • 1540s, from Middle French crasse (16c.), from Latin crassus "solid, thick, fat; dense." The literal sense always has been rare in English; meaning "grossly stupid" is recorded from 1650s, from French. Related: Crassly; crassness.
  • As in obtrusively : adv obviously
  • As in rudely : adv impolitely
Example sentences :
  • In order to apply the severest test the query should be a crassly foolish one.
  • Extract from : « Uruguay » by W. H. Koebel
  • It was strange that hitherto he should have been so crassly blind.
  • Extract from : « Lochinvar » by S. R. Crockett
  • He says she is too crassly material to appreciate his knowledge of chemistry.
  • Extract from : « I Walked in Arden » by Jack Crawford
  • It represented the legal ethics of a society on most of its sides brutally and crassly individualistic.
  • Extract from : « German Culture Past and Present » by Ernest Belfort Bax
  • Even scientific men are sometimes as crassly incredulous as the uncultured masses.
  • Extract from : « Mythical Monsters » by Charles Gould
  • The heir was as woe begone of face and as crassly sombre of raiment as even the most captious could have desired.
  • Extract from : « The Return of Peter Grimm » by David Belasco
  • Here was a government so crassly wicked and purposely blind as to profess neutrality and yet refuse to fight our battles!
  • Extract from : « Recollections » by David Christie Murray
  • In short, a born liar, credulous and barbarous, crassly ignorant and inconceivably stubborn.'
  • Extract from : « Ghetto Comedies » by Israel Zangwill
  • They were not so crassly or grossly materialistic as the present age undoubtedly is.
  • Extract from : « Winning His "W" » by Everett Titsworth Tomlinson

Synonyms for crassly

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