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adjective

Coarse adj. (compar. coarser; superl. coarsest)

Large in bulk, or composed of large parts or particles; of inferior quality or appearance; not fine in material or close in texture; gross; thick; rough; opposed to fine; as, coarse sand; coarse thread; coarse cloth; coarse bread.

Not refined; rough; rude; unpolished; gross; indelicate; as, coarse manners; coarse language. "I feel Of what coarse metal ye are molded." "To copy, in my coarse English, his beautiful expressions."

Synonyms: Large; thick; rough; gross; blunt; uncouth; unpolished; inelegant; indelicate; vulgar.

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... hastily converted into a door, a shapeless platform of rough, unhewn planks had that night been rudely patched together. This was the scaffold. A slight railing around it served to protect it from the crowd, and a heap of coarse sand had been thrown upon it. A squalid, unclean box of unplaned boards, originally prepared as a coffin for a Frenchman who some time before had been condemned to death for murdering the son of Goswyn Meurskens, ...

— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

... asked, "where does your honoured brother-in-law reside? and what is his official capacity? But I fear I'm too coarse in my manner, and could not presume to obtrude myself ...

— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin

... unfortunate. The public taste is with the idle laughers, and still inclines to follow them. It may be shown by an analysis of Wycherley's Plain Dealer, a coarse prose adaption of the Misanthrope, stuffed with lumps of realism in a vulgarized theme to hit the mark of English appetite, that we have in it the keynote of the Comedy of our stage. It is Moliere travestied, with the hoof to his foot and hair on the pointed tip of his ear. And how difficult it ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... circumstances men at times give vent to jocularities which sound coarse and shocking. But they are not meant so—simply the protest of the rough spirit at being thought capable of ...

— A Maid of the Silver Sea • John Oxenham

... unpack, mark and repack, in old women to report forthcoming contributions from grocers, merchants and tradesmen, and richer than all, in those wondrous boxes of sacrifices from the country, the last blanket, the inherited quilt, curtains torn from windows, and the coarse yet ancestral linen. In this personal self-denial the city had no part. What wonder that the whole corps of the Woman's Central felt their time and physical fatigue as nothing in comparison to these heart trials. Out ...

— Woman's Work in the Civil War - A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience • Linus Pierpont Brockett

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