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As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences.
Barry Unsworth

Meaning of "crass" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CRASS

From Latin crassus thick, dense, gross.
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PRONUNCIATION OF CRASS

crass  [kræs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CRASS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Crass is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES CRASS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

crass

Crass

Crass was an English punk rock band formed in 1977 which promoted anarchism as a political ideology, a way of life and a resistance movement. Crass popularised the anarcho-punk movement of the punk subculture, advocating direct action, animal rights and environmentalism. The band used and advocated a DIY punk ethic approach to its sound collages, leaflets, albums and films. Crass spray-painted stencilled graffiti messages in the London Underground system and on advertising billboards, coordinated squats and organised political action. The band expressed its ideals by dressing in black, military-surplus-style clothing and using a stage backdrop amalgamating icons of perceived authority such as the Christian cross, the swastika, the Union Jack and the Ouroboros. The band was critical of punk subculture and youth culture in general. Crass promoted an anarchism which became more common in the punk-music scene. They are considered art punk in their use of tape collages, graphics, spoken word releases, poetry and improvisation.

Definition of crass in the English dictionary

The definition of crass in the dictionary is stupid; gross.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CRASS


alcatras
ˈælkəˌtræs
Aras
æˈræs
corporas
ˈkɔːpəræs
cuirass
kwɪˈræs
Esdras
ˈɛzdræs
frass
fræs
hippocras
ˈhɪpəʊˌkræs
MIRAS
ˈmaɪˌræs
Mithras
ˈmɪθræs
morass
məˈræs
Patras
pəˈtræs
Protagoras
prəʊˈtæɡəˌræs
Sampras
ˈsæmpˌræs
sassafras
ˈsæsəˌfræs
steenbras
ˈstiːnˌbræs
strass
stræs
tirasse
tɪˈræs
trass
træs
wrasse
ræs
zebrass
ˈzebræs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CRASS

crash test dummy
crash-and-burn
crash-dive
crash-hot
crash-land
crash-landing
crash-test
Crashaw
crasher
crashing
crashingly
crashworthiness
crashworthy
crasis
crassamentum
crassitude
crassly
crassness
crassulacean acid metabolism
crassulaceous

WORDS THAT END LIKE CRASS

beargrass
bent grass
Bermuda grass
bluegrass
brass
cutting grass
disembarrass
embarrass
grass
Greengrass
harass
Kentucky bluegrass
lemon grass
meadow grass
pampas grass
rye-grass
switchgrass
top brass
turfgrass
wheatgrass

Synonyms and antonyms of crass in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «CRASS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «crass» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of crass

Translation of «crass» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CRASS

Find out the translation of crass to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of crass from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «crass» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

粗暴愚蠢的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

grosero
570 millions of speakers

English

crass
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मूर्ख
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

فجه
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

тупой
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

grosseiro
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সংবেদনহীন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

crasse
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Crass
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

krass
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

粗野な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

제멋대로의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Crass
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thô tục
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கிராஸ்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कुरळे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dangalak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ottuso
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

głupi
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

тупий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cras
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

άξεστο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kras
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

crass
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

krasse
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of crass

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CRASS»

The term «crass» is quite widely used and occupies the 48.984 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CRASS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about crass

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10 QUOTES WITH «CRASS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word crass.
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Alex Berenson
Sochi started with the same problem as every Winter Olympics. Forget the crass commercialism, the fake amateurism, NBC's refusal to televise important events live to all its viewers. As an event, the Winter Games fail on the most basic level. They're lousy to watch.
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Dave Brat
I like Ronald Reagan, who didn't play crass politics, and he just articulated and delivered on broad themes that were needed. Free markets meant free markets. Deregulation. Lower tax rates. Strong national defense. And he was credible and believable.
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Mario Cantone
I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude.
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Heather Langenkamp
I'm always concerned that I'm insulting the elder statesmen on the set by my crass behavior.
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John Larroquette
Again, as egotistical as I am, as self-centered as I am, and as much as I love strangers idolizing me, I find it very crass to be self-promoter in a way.
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Denise Mina
I was very aware of office politics because I was so baffled by them. So much so goes unsaid. No one says 'you're a cheeky so-and-so,' no one says 'you're so moody,' nobody ever confronts anyone else about anything. But I'm very crass, and I'm very confrontational, and I have a temper. I had to be hyper-vigilant in every office I worked in.
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Dean Norris
To survive in a lot of male-dominated situations - the police, the military, what have you - you put on a bit of the crass, blowhard thing, because you just can't survive being the nice guy in those environments.
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Danny Strong
I think most of America is seeing the strings behind the campaign, and sees the crass political maneuvers that people are making. I mean, they're extremely apparent to me.
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Mel Torme
Talking money is crass; so I'm not going to tell you what I made last year.
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Barry Unsworth
As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CRASS»

Discover the use of crass in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to crass and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Story of Crass
In-depth interviews with the main movers in the punk rock movement—Crass members Penny Rimbaud, Gee Vaucher, and Steve Ignorant—detail the face of the revolution founded by these radical thinkers and artists.
George Berger, 2009
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Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-racist Organizing, ...
Towards Collective Liberation is for activists engaging with dynamic questions of how to create and support effective movements for visionary systemic change, namely those who wish to ensure that all movements are both feminist and anti ...
Chris Crass, 2013
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Crass Struggle: Greed, Glitz, and Gluttony in a Wanna-Have World
An original and cutting commentary on the bad side of the good life.
R. T. Naylor, 2013
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The Crass Menagerie: A Pearls Before Swine Treasury
Follows the escapades of self-centered Rat and kindly (but dumb) Pig and their pals, with commentary from the author.
Stephan Pastis, 2008
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Crass: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases
This is an exciting world. It's cram-packed with opportunity. Great moments wait around every corner.ndash;Richard M. DeVosFew nations have been so poor as to have but one god.
‎2008
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Crass art and other pre post-modernist monsters
Like the early 60s music explosion, punk was as much about look as about music and no one was more influential in creating and propagating that look than Gee Vaucher whose work is featured in this stunning collection of paintings and ...
Gee Vaucher, 1999
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Classic Book of Rude Jokes: Crass Humor for the ...
Presents crude, culturally insensitive, and dirty jokes on topics ranging from love and sex to racism and religion.
Scott McNeely, 2013
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Shibboleth: My Revolting Life
" In this book, Penny takes us from his strict lower-middle class childhood and his experiences in art school to the Crass years, the hippies, and Free Festivals, including the now legendary, illegal Stonehenge Festival, of which Rimbaud ...
Penny Rimbaud, 1998
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Calcium-Regulating Hormones and Cardiovascular Function
This is the first book to exclusively address the actions of calcium-regulating hormones and peptides in the cardiovascular system.
M.F. Crass, III, Louis V. Avioli, 1994
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Love Songs
A book of shock slogans and mindless token tantrums. Preface by Crass member Penny Rimbaud (Shibboleth, and Diamond Signature) reflecting on the effects of the collective's work.
Crass, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CRASS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term crass is used in the context of the following news items.
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Cheeky Cell C advert crass, but not offensive: ASA
The ASA said that although some people might find the commercial crass, it is satisfied that the obvious metaphor would not be lost on the ... «BusinessTech, Jul 15»
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A Step In The Right Direction For Spurs...
Would it be crass to consider Southampton as a stepping stone for the defender? Regardless, the Belgian took to the English game like a duck ... «Football365.com, Jul 15»
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Crisis, what crisis? A tale of two Greeces
... even a whiff of desperation in the regulation blue-and-white streets of the town where none of the high-end boutiques would be crass enough ... «The Daily Telegraph, Jul 15»
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STX Entertainment Joins With Jim Henson Company For Next Film …
... begin to be mysteriously murdered, two mismatched detectives – one a type-A, take-no-prisoners human with a secret and the other a crass, ... «Deadline, Jul 15»
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Bill Cosby, Speech Criminal
He broke it because he didn't like a speech Cosby gave blaming family and community breakdown for increased criminality and crass culture ... «The Federalist, Jul 15»
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Why even arthouse cinema is remaking the remakes
By contrast the independent sector is usually by held up as a shining example of how to avoid such crass and short-sighted thinking. But is that ... «SBS, Jul 15»
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'Drifting' driver blasted by Carlisle judge for crass stupidity
'Drifting' driver blasted by Carlisle judge for crass stupidity. Last updated at 09:00, Wednesday, 08 July 2015. A driver who shut off a notorious Cumbrian road to ... «News & Star, Jul 15»
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A$AP Rocky regrets crass Rita Ora sex lyrics
Rapper A$AP Rocky regrets taking aim at Rita Ora in the lyrics to his fan favourite track 'Better Things', insisting it was "tasteless" to go public ... «3News NZ, Jul 15»
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Mulcair's crass play for Quebec votes: Hepburn
How else can you explain Mulcair's crass pandering recently to Quebec nationalist voters by reiterating his support for a controversial NDP ... «OurWindsor.ca, Jul 15»
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HBO's 7 Days in Hell is clever, crass, and uniquely uproarious
Thanks to Christopher Guest, who, if he didn't invent the genre, certainly perfected the mockumentary structure, we as a society now have the ... «FOXSports.com, Jul 15»

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