put crudely

Frequency: 6.26.4 per million words

To express something in a simple and possibly offensive way.

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Examples (10)

  • 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.