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crude

When an object is crude, it is natural or raw. Crude oil needs to go through to obtain the components in it. When something is crude, it lacks maturity.

crude

If something is crude, it is in its natural state. Crude oil.

crude

(= rough) not carefully or expertly made managed to make a crude splint a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them rough carpentry (= earthy, gross, vulgar) conspicuously and tastelessly indecent coarse language a crude joke crude behavior an earthy sense of humor a revoltingly gross expletive a vulgar gesture full of language so vulgar it should have been edited (= raw) not processed or subjected to analysis raw data the raw cost of production only the crude vital statistics (= primitive, rude) belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man primitive movies of the 1890s primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains (= blunt, stark) devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment the blunt truth the crude facts facing the stark reality of the deadline (= unrefined) not refined or processed unrefined ore crude oil (= oil) a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons

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Simple sentences

The method was crude, but very effective.
This figure is a mirror of the decrease in imports of crude oil.
The crude oil price is falling further.
I was offended by her crude manners.
His crude jokes made Jane angry.
It is only recently that crude oil has come to be used to make chemical products.
Japan imports great quantities of crude oil.
Crude oil has been falling in price.
After reading Tom's forum post, Mary resisted the impulse to post a crude reply.
This joke is crude.
Don't tell crude jokes in the presence of my father.
The price of crude oil is sinking.
This is a crude material imported from Malaysia.
Tom said something crude about the way Mary was dressed.
Don't be crude.
Crude oil is refined at this plant.

Movie subtitles

I think he's selfish, crude and destructive.
If anybody in Everytown can adapt to that crude oil for our aeroplanes, it's Harding.
But in the undercover liquor industry, crude stills make their appearance.
Rather a crude custom, I agree. but a custom.
Don't be crude.
You're crude.
Now, come, that's rather a crude word.
I ran a 1,000 barrels of heavy crude.
Crude but adequate.
You barbarian. You crude unfeeling fool.
You're crude!
In WWI, for the first time ever, nations combined to fight nations, using the crude weapons of the day.
You're too easily swayed by sentiment, individual good deeds over bad, the crude extremes.
I'll admit that was a little crude.
There. Crude rubber.
Oh, don't be so crude, Watson.
Because you're crude, rude and a bore.
How crude. How crude.
Yes, very crude.
A crude device Judge Brisson but it's confirmed my suspicions that you're not the cripple you pretend to be.
In another time I'd be faintly amused by this one's idea of a holiday. - Judging by a rather crude drawing.
It was crude, yes, But it was original and honest.
The fact that I played chess and went to sleep is proof that I am crude and unfeeling.
Athos, this is a crude sort of joke.
Perhaps we've been somewhat crude in our suggestion.
God is a superstition too crude to impose upon a child.
No, no, stupid. Don't be crude.
Nothing so crude.
The gentleman has been crude with my friend, on whom I depend, and that is owner of many warehouses.
Very crude, I grant you, but from that beginning will come more and more powerful lights. until they're able to penetrate through skin and bone- give a picture of a man's anatomy or his brain.
Yes, you're too easily swayed by sentiment. individual good deeds over bad, the crude extremes.
It's crude, but remarkably similar to these copies. of old woodcuts and medieval drawings. of a fire demon invoked by witchcraft to destroy an enemy.
Isn't that a little crude?
I get crude sometimes.

News and current affairs

High crude oil prices make it easier for Iran to build nuclear weapons and for Russia to use energy blackmail to threaten Europe.
Because crude oil is priced in US dollars, and the dollar has depreciated against the euro, European consumers have gotten off relatively easy from rising energy prices.
For example, we do not know whether Iran is conducting secret activities at undisclosed sites, or when Iran could develop a crude nuclear weapon, with estimates ranging from several months to several years.
As always with crude generalizations, elements of truth are intermixed with a mass of confusion.
Many intellectuals disdain popular culture because of its crude commercialism.
The authors used crude death rates (CDR's), which reflect the number of deaths per thousand people, in explaining the rise in mortality.
The more tons of steel produced, slabs of concrete poured, and gallons of crude oil pumped out of the ground the better.
He is loud, crude, ignorant about most things, and looks absurd in his puffed up blond comb-over hairdo.
The IMF's idea, of course, was to strengthen the hand of the reformers, but the IMF's crude way of imposing its conditions more often led to backlash by the parliament, and to a degeneration of the democratic process.
Irrigation systems remain crude and inadequate to confronting the vicissitudes of rainfall on the often parched and barren Korean peninsula.
With high prices for crude oil and natural gas bloating its coffers, Russia is once again aggressively confronting the small and still relatively weak states that fled the eroding Soviet empire 15 years ago.
Since Greece does not produce oil, this can mean only that Greek refiners, which now have considerable excess capacity, are simply exporting imported crude oil in a slightly different form.
Moreover, because crude oil is priced in US dollars, a rise in the euro means a fall in energy costs.
We need to look with more nuance at the forward march of American culture instead of demonizing it as a form of crude imperialism or merely celebrating its liberating potential.
Other resources like fuel oil, diesel, light crude, solar, and gas are also available as means of electricity generation, but their costs are all quite prohibitive.
The crude oil price already has dropped substantially from its highs at the beginning of the year.
The following year, crude precursors of the blood-thinning medication heparin were contaminated, causing hundreds of allergic reactions and 19 deaths in the United States, and at least 80 serious adverse health events in Germany.
BRUSSELS - In today's global economy, there is no price as important as that of crude oil.
This time, the film that triggered riots in Cairo, Benghazi, Sana, and elsewhere is so crude and inflammatory as to seem clearly intended to elicit the outrage that it produced.
America's elites turned a blind eye to these developments, rejecting all criticism, together with the crude anti-Americanism with which it was often expressed.
The best one can expect is that India continues to act at the margin - for example, by reducing dependence on Iranian oil while increasing imports from Saudi Arabia, already its largest supplier of crude.

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