Sentence examples for crass attempt from inspiring English sources

Is this a crass attempt to turn a quick buck?

He called it "a crass attempt at mass identity theft from the deceased".

"This is at first glance a very crass attempt to cash in on America's love affair with the Mafia myth.

"This is not a crass attempt to get people to buy gizmos they don't need," he said in an interview.

The dialogue is loaded with references to trashy celebs and cheap high-street stores in a way that feels like a crass attempt to raise snorts of derision.

According to the journalist Sylvanus Cadwallader, a witness, General Grant waxed indignant at his father's crass attempt to profit from his son's military status, and raged at the Jewish traders who "entrapped his old father into such an unworthy undertaking".

Subtle and crass attempts to undermine it should not prevail.

There are a few chuckles initially, especially watching Mahmut's awful, crass attempts to pick up women, and his obsession with pornographic movies.

His critics would concede that he had a genius only for self-promotion and making money but they overlooked the fact that for all his crass attempts to provoke the opposition, he could also be canny and diligent.

Though Curda's unfortunately crass attempts at apologies are something, as previous reports noted they only came after he'd claimed his email was hacked (twice)and only after the women confronted him offline and online.

Chronicling political events began to changed once Obama became President, with the rise of the Tea Party, gone was the civility, replaced by the shrill, the loud and sometimes crude, or as my late mother would say; "crass" attempts to hijack discussions, garner media attention and disrupt meetings.