put crudely
Frequency: 6.26.4 per million words
To express something in a simple and possibly offensive way.
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- To put it crudely, he's only interested in the money.
- The situation, crudely put, is a total mess.
- She put the matter very crudely in front of the board members.
- If I may put it crudely, we have completely run out of options.
- He tends to put things crudely when he is under a lot of pressure.
- To put it more crudely, they are just trying to exploit our labor.
- Crudely put, the entire project was a complete and utter failure.
- There was no need to put it so crudely in the official email.
- To put it crudely, the boss simply doesn't like your attitude.
- The truth, crudely put, is that we are losing the market battle.