Crude
In its natural state; not cooked or prepared by fire or heat; undressed; not altered, refined, or prepared for use by any artificial process; raw; as, crude flesh.
Unripe; not mature or perfect; immature.
Not reduced to order or form; unfinished; not arranged or prepared; ill-considered; immature.
Undigested; unconcocted; not brought into a form to give nourishment.
Having, or displaying, superficial and undigested knowledge; without culture or profundity; as, a crude reasoner.
Harsh and offensive, as a color; tawdry or in bad taste, as a combination of colors, or any design or work of art.
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Crude Quotations
This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?
Steve Jobs
I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.
Walt Disney
The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.
Hedy Lamarr
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
Gustave Flaubert
In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
Ellen Glasgow
Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.
Lionel Blue
I refuse to be crude and selfish in any way.
DeForest Kelley
If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil.
Doug Coupland
Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.
Leon Kass
Crude Translations
crude in Afrikaans is rou
crude in Dutch is bot, onbewerkt, onbehouwen, cru, grof
crude in Finnish is raaka
crude in French is vulgaire, brut, cru
crude in Italian is grezzo
crude in Portuguese is cru
crude in Spanish is crudo, bronco
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