Its evolution can be crudely split into three periods.
The skull - and - crossbones crudely carved on the first tombstones was replaced by a winged cherub.
Stated somewhat crudely, increasing employment will reduce the number of people who might promote or even condone deviant behavior.
The Greek case (crudely stated) is that Macedonia is a title properly belonging a) to ancient Macedonia and b) to the northern Greek province that bears that name.
Today, that mountain range still zigzags down the Atlantic and across the South Pacific and through the lower Indian Ocean, wrapping the globe like a crudely stitched soccer ball.
Put crudely, she had chosen the son's conjugal partner, not her son.
Whereas most African countries contain a far headier concoction of tribes within boundaries crudely drawn by colonial map-makers.
So, very crudely, the thing on the wall is the switch DNA, your finger is the regulator, and gene expression is the light turning on or turning off.
A crudely indecent word or phrase; an obscenity.
It's not just reaching out and crudely grasping something. We want them to be able to use the fingers we've worked so hard on.
An early, crudely made musket.
So often crudely caricatured by others, the American people yesterday stood in the eye of history and made an emphatic choice for change for themselves and the world.
Most of the reports are vague, filled with incongruent detail, or crudely fabricated.
The authorities themselves undermined it when they filmed him without his permission, and then presented a crudely edited video that suggested he was trying to blackmail the government for money.
Some foreign agencies do seize crudely on images of emaciated infants to secure extra funding.
