'crudeness' is an acceptable word in written English.
It is used to mean a lack of politeness or sensitivity in a person's behaviour. For example: John's crudeness was extremely off-putting and made everyone uncomfortable.
Only when doctors worked out how to back up the surgeon's knife with drugs and radiation did cancer begin to succumb to treatment albeit, to start with, in a pretty crude fashion.Now, however, that crudeness is rapidly giving way to sophistication, as a new wave of cancer treatments comes to market.
"It seems like most, translators included, are insensible to the crudeness of Tolstoy's style, but Tolstoy liked to be crude, he was crude provocatively.
The relative crudeness of the work suggested until now that the works were copies, but research published in the magazine Sapiens by the architect David Agulló and the geologist Daniel Barbé shows that they pre-date Gaudí's signature buildings and were in fact prototypes for features in Park Güell, the Sagrada Familia and the nearby Colònia Güell, all of which Gaudí was working on at the time.
Related: VS Naipaul: the long arrival part one Naipaul, who is of Indian ancestry like Salim, is drawn to this visceral and dangerous scene while being at the same time disdainful of its crudeness and savagery.
Such crudeness, including the arrest of some 1,500 Brotherhood supporters by the third round, is not new to Egyptian politics.
Every once in a while, Mr Turner receives a visit from his angry ex-lover Sarah Danby, who berates him for neglecting her and their grown daughters.That Turner was capable of crudeness in real life is beyond dispute.
What is striking about Mr Gilani is the crudeness of the corruption he is accused of and the bitterness of the current disputes: the main opposition says it does not recognise him as the prime minister any more.As these cases multiply, pressing issues are being sidelined.
And indeed, despite technical crudeness, Van Gogh's early drawings show a deep affection and empathy for the difficult and dark industrial landscape and its poverty-stricken residents.
He does not spare Mr Clinton's sexual recklessness and he is even more severe about the "libidinous crudeness" of his departing lavishness with pardons as "inappropriate", to use Mr Clinton's own weasel word, as his relationship with an adolescent intern.
The crudeness of the extremists' threats is not helping them either.
But he never quite ditched the crudeness that won him support in the first place.
