Fact: Bob had damaged the navigation-lure in a crude attempt to change course.

It's obviously a crude attempt at convincing us not to attack.

But in a crude attempt at social responsibility, the networks chose to turn television into a gallery of role models.

I agree, although there have been crude but effective attempts.

I did a preliminary survey, using my flashlight to check for any crude attempts at security.

This was a crude attempt by the military to disguise the basic injustice of the system.

He said there had been crude attempts to make the account look short, but that the money was all there.

They'd just survived a crude attempt by amateurs at a paid "hit."

Sadly, we need not go far to find similar cases, since crude attempts at assimilation are a real and current problem in Europe, too.

In her case, there'd been no crude attempt to fake a suicide.