Sentence examples for crude term from inspiring English sources

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In Oval Office tapes, Nixon referred to him once, using a crude term, as someone who was prissy about legal procedure.

Senator Charles E. Schumer apologized on Wednesday for using a crude term to refer to a flight attendant who had asked him to turn his cellphone off on a US Airways plane before takeoff.

In one of the most contentious debates taking place in modern Britain, though, we have only one crude term to describe a whole range of individual and institutional practices and prejudices: "racism".

Properly understanding another e-mail to the student that included the crude term for masturbation, he added later via e-mail, depended on a distinction between "logical implication and conversational implicature".

Mr. Sinitski, a heating and air-conditioning technician, repeated a joke he had heard back in the spring about the choice in the Democratic primary between a black man and a woman (Hillary Rodham Clinton), and he used a crude term for each.

Meanwhile, some of Mr. McGinn's posts —  including one meditating on the difference between "suggesting" an action and "entertaining" it, and another (since removed) riffing on alternate meanings of a crude term for masturbation — have struck even some of Mr. McGinn's onetime supporters as less philosophical than self-incriminating.

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In rather crude terms they get cash back, courtesy of the taxpayer via Union Modernisation Fund.

In crude terms, Sausage Party essentially boils down to: Deadpool and Zootopia had a baby.

He has divulged his predilection for oral sex in crude terms on television.

It has, in crude terms, shifted a little to the right and a little down market.

In crude terms: Alice's second trip to Underland wasn't worth the wait.

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