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Recent Examples of crudely
In a particularly gnarly flashback, one sibling voluntarily — and crudely — amputates his fingers to match his brother's disfigured hand, which lost two digits when Angier shot him.
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Matt Cabral, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Apr. 2026
Plenty of earbuds have bass, but for many of them, it’s kind of crudely implemented.
—Christian De Looper, PC Magazine, 30 Mar. 2026
That’s because any time Booth is, say, smoking a cigarette, it is crudely scratched out onscreen — doubtless at once a nod to TV standards and a thumb to the nose at censors.
—Tom Tapp, Deadline, 8 Feb. 2026
Those were the days of crudely working insulin, crazy meal schedules and no cell phones.
—Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 28 Jan. 2026
On the first couple of nights, as the bats began to explore Latham Island, their head direction cells fired crudely.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 21 Jan. 2026
White glue, popsicle sticks, construction paper — crudely cut out and stuck on a milk carton.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 15 Nov. 2025
Here, astronomers are gawking at a radio signal that appears crudely on the screen like a crooked game of Pong but turns out to be a line of data repeated every 78 seconds from 600 light-years away.
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2025
Museums will need to be far more careful about crudely luring visitors with the value of their exhibits, as will collectors.
—Lionel Laurent, Twin Cities, 24 Oct. 2025
Matt Cabral, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Apr. 2026
Plenty of earbuds have bass, but for many of them, it’s kind of crudely implemented.
—Christian De Looper, PC Magazine, 30 Mar. 2026
That’s because any time Booth is, say, smoking a cigarette, it is crudely scratched out onscreen — doubtless at once a nod to TV standards and a thumb to the nose at censors.
—Tom Tapp, Deadline, 8 Feb. 2026
Those were the days of crudely working insulin, crazy meal schedules and no cell phones.
—Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 28 Jan. 2026
On the first couple of nights, as the bats began to explore Latham Island, their head direction cells fired crudely.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 21 Jan. 2026
White glue, popsicle sticks, construction paper — crudely cut out and stuck on a milk carton.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 15 Nov. 2025
Here, astronomers are gawking at a radio signal that appears crudely on the screen like a crooked game of Pong but turns out to be a line of data repeated every 78 seconds from 600 light-years away.
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2025
Museums will need to be far more careful about crudely luring visitors with the value of their exhibits, as will collectors.
—Lionel Laurent, Twin Cities, 24 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crudely
Adverb
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This caused an already off-balance Adebayo to fall clumsily to the ground and land directly on his tailbone.—
Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
15 Apr. 2026
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And knitting meant clumsily looping a strand of acrylic yarn onto the tip of a bamboo needle, groaning, then handing the project to my mother for help.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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The image of McIlroy awkwardly singing a few lines at a concert is almost as entertaining as the slip itself.—
Hanna Wickes,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Apr. 2026
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The result is wage compression at the bottom and explosive wealth creation at the top — with the upper-middle class caught awkwardly in between, statistically thriving but existentially anxious.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
12 Apr. 2026
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“Crudely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crudely. Accessed 21 Apr. 2026.
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