n. Indigestion; undigested food in the stomach; badly-concocted humours.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The condition of being crude; rawness.
n. That which is in a crude or undigested state; hence, superficial, undigested views, not reduced to order or form.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The quality or state of being crude, in any sense of that word.
n. Indigestion.
n. That which is crude; something in a rough, unprepared, or undigested state: as, the crudities of an untrained imagination.
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n. an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement
n. a wild or unrefined state
Word Usage
"Any civilized man recoils from crude behavior toward the symbols of any religion, but our legal system long ago decided that enduring crudity is better than giving the police a mandate to punish intrinsically religious offenses."