as in clumsily
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Recent Examples of crudely
For a place of worship the temple was plain, with a long hallway of overlapping purple carpet and idols carved crudely from blush-colored marble.
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Danielle Parker,
CBS News,
30 June 2026
After fighting off those who called him a diva, after fending off those who called him the second coming of Terrell Owens, Brown is leaving Philadelphia in such a way that will not spare him from being crudely cast in those caricatures.
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Brooks Kubena,
New York Times,
1 June 2026
Trump has responded negatively and crudely to conservatives' criticism of the war in Iran, as peace talks in Pakistan have yet to prove fruitful and Americans' opinion on the war — and Trump — sours, according to public polling.
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Joseph Konig,
PEOPLE,
21 Apr. 2026
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.
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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.
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Tom Tapp,
Deadline,
8 Feb. 2026
Those were the days of crudely working insulin, crazy meal schedules and no cell phones.
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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.
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Yasemin Saplakoglu,
Quanta Magazine,
21 Jan. 2026
Danielle Parker,
CBS News,
30 June 2026
After fighting off those who called him a diva, after fending off those who called him the second coming of Terrell Owens, Brown is leaving Philadelphia in such a way that will not spare him from being crudely cast in those caricatures.
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Brooks Kubena,
New York Times,
1 June 2026
Trump has responded negatively and crudely to conservatives' criticism of the war in Iran, as peace talks in Pakistan have yet to prove fruitful and Americans' opinion on the war — and Trump — sours, according to public polling.
—
Joseph Konig,
PEOPLE,
21 Apr. 2026
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.
—
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crudely
Adverb
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The men’s styles collide clumsily with Nashville’s party people, who are at least a decade younger and many drinks deeper.
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In the Connecticut cases, as well as hundreds of similar cases around the country, the lawyers used software that produced what appeared to be somewhat clumsily written but otherwise solid legal briefs.
Adverb
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Balogun’s foot perched atop Muharemović’s awkwardly bent ankle.
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The Americans had to scramble after his foul for awkwardly stepping on Tarik Muharemovic and preserved the shutout despite playing short-handed for more than 30 minutes.
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“Crudely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crudely. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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