Definition of "crudity" [cru•di•ty]

• The state of being crude. (noun)
• A crude act or characteristic. (noun)
• Indigestion; undigested food in the stomach; badly-concocted humours. (noun)

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• "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."
• "But crudity is only the hallmark of those that have hijacked the conservative movement."
• "One is only looking for an order of magnitude answer, comparable in crudity to the back-of-the-envelope calculations of early cosmologists, but our biological friends tell us, without any apparent anxiety, that it just can't be done."