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発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹuːdɪti/

名詞

crudity (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 crudities)

1. (uncountable) The state of being crude.
2. (countable) A crude act or characteristic.
   • 1889, Oscar Wilde, "The Decay of Lying: An Observation,"

     What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.

   • 2021 October 31, Colleen Long, “How ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ became code for insulting Joe Biden”, in AP News, Associated Press:

     Veteran GOP ad maker Jim Innocenzi had no qualms about the coded crudity, calling it “hilarious.”

3. (obsolete, medicine) Indigestion; undigested food in the stomach; badly-concocted humours.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970: