The phrase "a more crude" is not correct in standard English; it should be "cruder" instead.
You can use it when comparing the level of crudeness between two or more things, but it must be in the correct form.
Example: "The humor in this movie is cruder than in the previous one."
Alternatives: "a more vulgar" or "a more coarse".
This area, Gottfried said, takes "a more crude and unpolished approach to the process of naming," and the brain's language centers can have trouble making use of such unrefined input.
In a more crude ritual, crew members urinate on the wheels of the bus taking them to the launch pad, a tradition said to have been started by the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, though it has never been witnessed by anyone outside an inner circle of astronauts.
What we have done is basically a trade-off: We allow for a more crude approximation of the quantum tunneling effects in the two outer cavities by completely neglecting their quantum fluctuations.
Watching his right-wing speeches, in which he castigated in sneering tones the profligate, welfare-spending, bureaucrat-infested state government, I saw a more crude and ambitious figure, far closer to the brutal crime boss he played in the 1964 movie, The Killers, his last Hollywood role.
However, the fact that the few fecal samples in our assays that contained cultivable bacteria did not distinguish themselves in terms of higher 16S DNA load than the successfully depleted mice (not shown) indicates that the qPCR assay is a more crude analysis.
Three studies measured the frequency [ 22, 26] or probability [ 19] of NSP (or SIF) use, but several studies used a more crude binary measure of NSP "users and non-users".
There is little room left to store any more crude, says Jeff Currie of Goldman Sachs.
Thanks to shale oil, the United States is today generating close to nine million barrels of crude a day, which is more than any of the OPEC members, Saudi Arabia included.* At the moment, Russia, which isn't a member of OPEC, is still producing a bit more crude than the United States: the country pumps more than ten million barrels a day.
And for all the talk of the end of oil, humanity will still pump a lot more crude in 2006 than it did in 1996.
But my reaction to the titillating photos, and indeed any female nudies, is a bit more crude: Why are there so few naked photos of men?
