crass

Adjective complement with noun phrase

say: I also survived lunch without being verbally skewered like an unworthy politician for saying something crass.

Modifies a noun

• commercialism: Every year the message of Christmas is subsumed ever more by the crass commercialism of the market.
• stupidity: Absolutely; it was a moment of crass stupidity.
• insensitivity: And there's more in a similar vein: " I cannot believe the crass insensitivity of this fake newsflash.
• opportunism: Nevertheless, putting that chameleon-like behavior aside, there was nothing inevitable about such crass opportunism.
• materialism: Some object to the monetary incentives as crass materialism and argue for donors receiving no more than medical expenses and insurance policies.
• incompetence: Some of his behavior may well have been exemplary but he has presided, at the very least, over crass incompetence and leaks.

Modifying Another Word

• so: How could anyone be so crass as to spoil such a place?
• too: Not to be too crass, ( that's for the news networks ) the impacts are TV gold.
• rather: The fundamentalists would almost have a rather crass resuscitation view.
• little: On the other hand, it sometimes seems a little crass.
• sometimes: Why does it then use the license fee to promote uneducated - indeed sometimes crass - ' pop ' ?
• really: MikeS 15 Dec 2005 A really crass article with equally stupid responses and I vote conservative!

Infinitive complement

say: Some people were so crass as to say that we wanted the mighty American dollar.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: It isn't of course, but here Barker's political message seems crass.
• sound: It may sound crass, but for poor flyers this is the third way.

Preposition: in

extreme: His latest intervention is not only crass in the extreme.