Meaning of cruden | Babel Free

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To make crude

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Examples

“We saw⟳ how the interconnectedness of primitive impulse and cultural splendour was less forcefully, indeed almost obscurely, expressed through a scholarly excursus which could hardly compete⟳ in impact with the 'magnificent blond beast lustfully prowling after booty and victory'; and we saw⟳ how the 'blond beast' image was itself crudened, from meaning a psychological factor in man to meaning primitive man in general.”

“In passing from 'A Conference of the Powers' to Stalky, then, we see⟳ how genuine experience⟳ and observations can be crudened and distorted by their conversion or partial conversion into propagandist fable—a process⟳ all too frequent in Kipling's art.”

“The view⟳ with the left should theoretically have⟳ been more extensive, that eye having greater altitude at the time, owing to the angle of repose of my head; but although that view⟳ gave a middle-ground of pale belly beyond the pubis, the breasts now didn't have⟳ the clarity of outline and the subtlety of texture of the previous survey: myopia gave just sufficient blur, after eighteen inches or so, to (ha!) cruden the edge and surface.”

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