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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Lacking in delicacy or refinement: barbarian, barbaric, boorish, churlish, coarse, crass, crude, gross, ill-bred, indelicate, philistine, rough, rude, tasteless, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unrefined, vulgar. See COURTESY, SMOOTH. 2. Not perfected, elaborated, or completed: preliminary, rough, sketchy, tentative, unfinished, unperfected. See START. 3. Lacking expert, careful craftsmanship: crude, primitive, raw, rough, rude. See GOOD. 4. Lacking good manners: discourteous, disrespectful, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, rude, uncivil, ungracious, unmannerly. See COURTESY. 5. Of a plain and unsophisticated nature: artless, homely, homespun, natural, rustic, unadorned. See PLAIN.
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