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  • 21Welhaven, Johan Sebastian Cammermeyer — ▪ Norwegian poet born Dec. 22, 1807, Bergen, Nor. died Oct. 21, 1873, Christiania       Norwegian poet and critic who attacked the crudity and extreme nationalism of many of his contemporaries, particularly the nationalist poet Henrik Wergeland… …

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  • 22Strongheart —    The 1905 play by William C. deMille, opening on 30 January 1905 at New York s Hudson Theatre, became a popular favorite with audiences, was revived in August 1905, and toured to London in 1907. Robert Edeson played Soangataha (Strongheart), a… …

    The Historical Dictionary of the American Theater

  • 23oversimplification — Synonyms and related words: callowness, coarseness, conceptual crudity, crudeness, crudity, greenness, immatureness, immaturity, nondevelopment, oversimplicity, oversimplifying, rawness, reductionism, reductivism, roughness, rudeness, simplism,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 24crudites — 1960, from Fr. crudités, lit. raw things (see CRUDITY (Cf. crudity)) …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 25crude — [[t]kru͟ːd[/t]] cruder, crudest, crudes 1) ADJ GRADED A crude method or measurement is not exact or detailed, but may be useful or correct in a rough, general way. Standard measurements of blood pressure are an important but crude way of… …

    English dictionary

  • 26gaucheness — noun an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement the whole town was famous for its crudeness • Syn: ↑crudeness, ↑crudity • Derivationally related forms: ↑gauche, ↑crude (for: ↑cru …

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  • 27primitiveness — noun a wild or unrefined state • Syn: ↑crudeness, ↑crudity, ↑primitivism, ↑rudeness • Derivationally related forms: ↑rude (for: ↑rudeness), ↑prim …

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  • 28rudeness — noun 1. a manner that is rude and insulting (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑discourtesy • Ant: ↑courtesy (for: ↑discourtesy) • Derivationally related forms: ↑ …

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  • 29gaucheness — gauche ness n. an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement. Syn: crudeness, crudity. [WordNet 1.5] …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 30illiteracy — noun (plural cies) Date: 1660 1. the quality or state of being illiterate; especially inability to read or write 2. a mistake or crudity (as in speaking) typical of one who is illiterate …

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