1540s, from Middle French crasse (16c.), from Latin crassus "solid, thick, fat; dense." The literal sense always has been rare in English; meaning "grossly stupid" is recorded from 1650s, from French. Middle English had cras (adj.) "slow, sluggish, tardy" (mid-15c.), also crassitude "thickness." Related: Crassly; crassness.
实用例句
1. The government has behaved with crass insensitivity.
该政府行事愚蠢而且麻木不仁。来自柯林斯例句
2. the crass questions all disabled people get asked
所有残疾人都会碰到的愚蠢而缺乏同情心的提问来自《权威词典》
3. Crass materialism causes people to forget spiritual values.
极端唯物主义使人忘掉精神价值.来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
4. The family has been described variously as crass, bigoted, racist and plain boring.
人们对这家人有各种不同的评价：愚蠢、顽固、有种族偏见和无聊透顶，不一而足。来自柯林斯例句
5. I didn't want any part of this silly reception. It was all so crass.
