crude attempt
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcrudeandattempt
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crude
adjective
uk/kruːd/us/kruːd/
simple and not skilfully done ...
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attempt
noun[C]
uk/əˈtempt/us/əˈtempt/
the act of trying to do something, especially ...
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(Definition ofcrudeandattemptfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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They fell into three sub-groups that all had higher than averagecrudeattemptrates but otherwise differed considerably from each other.
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It seems to me that because of lack of thought and knowledge a rathercrudeattemptis being made here to suppress technology.
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Is he aware that this afternoon we are seeing acrudeattemptto create the steak-rejecting economy?
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The plain fact is that it is acrudeattemptat populist politics.
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That is just acrudeattemptto smear.
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I hope that it is not thecrudeattemptthat it was portrayed as in the newspapers.
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It is a rathercrudeattemptto control the economy.
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Those amendments do not improve the report; rather they are acrudeattemptto add the biased, distorted and racist sentiment of the signatories concerned.
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It was not just thecrudeattemptto fix that is so objectionable.
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Clause 6 is a praiseworthy butcrudeattemptto apply socialism to an exceedingly complicated problem.
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That is part of the backwards and forwards of politics, but thecrudeattemptto manipulate religious feeling deserves to be flushed into the open and condemned.
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The clause is a malign,crudeattemptto save money by picking the pockets of those who have suffered the afflictions of industrial accidents and diseases.
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But we would not view critical historians as making crude attempts at understanding and explaining human behaviour which can only be completed by a natural scientific-based ' science of culture '.
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But at the same time it has become possible to progress from the crude attempts at biological warfare of past centuries 1 to threaten major epidemics.
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The chaos created by the crude attempts to rate individual caravans defies description.
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In short, the grant-related expenditure assessments put forward as a basis for setting rate limits are extremely crude attempts to measure need.
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Crude attempts at retrospective diagnosis fail to be sensitive to historical context, may treat historical and religious records as scientific evidence, or ascribe pathology to behaviours that require none.
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