noun
                                                a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons
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                                                adjective
                                                not carefully or expertly made
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                                                                                                        - managed to make a crude splint
- a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them
- rough carpentry
 
                                                                                        
                                                adjective
                                                conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
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                                                                                                        - 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
 
                                                                                        
                                                adjective
                                                not refined or processed
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                                                                                                        - unrefined ore
- crude oil
 
                                                                                        
                                                adjective
                                                belonging to an early stage of technical development
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                                                                                                        - 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
 
                                                                                        
                                                adjective
                                                devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment
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                                                                                                        - the blunt truth
- the crude facts
- facing the stark reality of the deadline
 
                                                                                        
                                                adjective
                                                not processed or subjected to analysis
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                                                                                                        - raw data
- the raw cost of production
- only the crude vital statistics