crudity, n. 1. vulgarity, coarseness, commonness, lowness, crudeness; rudeness, incivility, impropriety, unseemliness, bad manners; boorishness, churlishness, boisterousness, brazenness, brassiness.
2. lack of polish, lack of breeding, unrefinement, inelegance, inurbanity, inurbaneness; parvenuism, poor taste, garishness, loudness, Philistinism, gaucherie, tactlessness.
3. indecency, indelicacy, offensiveness, scurrilousness; obscenity, foulness, filth, filthiness, lewdness, prurience, ribaldry, bawdiness, smuttiness, Sl. raunchiness.
cruel, adj. 1. barbarous, barbaric, bloodthirsty, ferocious, savage, truculent; vicious, brutal, brutish, inhuman, animalistic, beastly; sadistic, masochistic; evil, malevolent, maleficent, fiendish, diabolical, hellish, infernal.
2. stern, strict, rigid, severe, unrelenting; harsh, grim, relentless, remorseless, implacable; pitiless, merciless, ruthless, heartless; hard-hearted, flinty, stonyhearted, cold-blooded, unfeeling,
cruelty, n. 1. barbarity, barbarousness, viciousness, ruthlessness, ferocity, fierceness, savagery, truculence; brutality, brutishness, inhumanity; murderousness, bloodthirstiness, cold-bloodedness; harshness, severity, grimness; sadism, masochism; fiendishness, deviltry, diablery.
cruet, n. bottle, decanter, vessel, Eccles. ampulla; vial, caster, beaker, carafe; alembic, crucible; ewer, pitcher; cup, mug, noggin,
cruise, v. 1. sail, navigate, coast, traverse the seas, ride the bounding main; travel, voyage, journey.
2. meander, wander, rove, range, prowl, drift; ramble, saunter, peregrinate.
3. Informal, solicit, pander, pimp; be on the make, look for a pick-up.
-n. 4. boat trip, freighter trip, sail; voyage at sea, vacation at sea.
cruiser, n. 1. ship of war, warship, battle cruiser, armored cruiser, light cruiser, corvette; battleship, ship of the line, man-of-war, dreadnought, capital ship, Inf. battle wagon.
2. squad car, cruise car, police car, Inf. black and white, Sl. Smoky, Sl. Smoky Bear,
crumb, n. bit, fragment, particle, mite, morsel; nip, pinch, nibble, bite, snatch; speck, trifle, scrap, shred, fritter, little crumb, tiny bit, Baby Talk, teensy-weensy bit; snip, snippet, sliver, splinter, seed, grain; dot, dab, soupgon, minim; atom, molecule,
crumble, v. 1. fragment, break up, crumb, crack, splinter, shred, fritter; crush, break, shiver, powder, pulverize, triturate, comminute.
2. disintegrate, fall to pieces, fall apart, break down; collapse, tumble down, give way, break up, go to wrack