Coarseness
['kɔrsnɪs]
Definition
(noun.) the quality of lacking taste and refinement.
(noun.) looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth).
(noun.) the quality of being composed of relatively large particles.
Editor: Natasha--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being coarse; roughness; inelegance; vulgarity; grossness; as, coarseness of food, texture, manners, or language.
Edited by Barbie
Examples
- Later on there was more grace and less coarseness in the human representations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Mr. Bulstrode, the banker, seemed to be addressed, but that gentleman disliked coarseness and profanity, and merely bowed. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It was intermingling the coarseness of horror with the profoundness of natural grief. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I was weakly dismayed at the ignorance, the poverty, the coarseness of all I heard and saw round me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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