Rule Shaker was trying to force me, actually, and in a very crude way.

One rather crude way of looking at this is as follows.

It is a somewhat crude way to frame the question.

But it is a crude way to look into another place, blind by design.

And in a crude way, there is support for this conclusion.

It must be a very crude way of saying someone is annoying you.

In their crude way, these boys cut some fine distinctions.

That was a pretty crude way to put things.

Actually, I felt that in his crude way my master had gasped truth.

Chapter 16 Voice recognition by computer had begun in a crude way during the early 1970s.