coarseness of food, texture, manners, or language
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Coarseness
Synonyms for "coarseness" (177 found)
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depthdiscorddiscourteousnessdiscourtesydistance throughdrynessdysphemismearthinessfallen naturefallen statefatnessfleshfleshlinessfourth-ratenessfranknessgaudinessgothicismgracelessnessgraininessgranularity
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granulationgreennessgrittinessgross behaviorgrossnessgruffnessgutturalismgutturalitygutturalnesshardnessharshnessheavinesshoarsenesshumblenesshuskinessill breedingill mannersill-balanced sentencesimmaturenessimmaturityimpolitenessimproprietyimpurityincivilityinconcinnityinconsideratenessincorrectnessindecorousnessindelicacyinelegance
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inelegancyinfelicityinferiorityinferiornessinsensitivityinurbanitylack of finishlack of polishlapsed stateleadennessloudnessloutishnesslowlinessmannerlessnessmassmaterialismmeannessmeretriciousnessnondevelopmentnonspirituality
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obscenityoffensivenessoversimplicityoversimplificationpompousnessponderousnesspoor dictionpoornesspostlapsarian stateracinessranknessraspinessraucityrawnessreductionismribaldrysaltinessscrapinessscratchinesssecond-ratenesssesquipedalianismsesquipedalitysimplismslipshod constructionspicinessstertorousnessstiltednessswinishnesstactlessnesstastelessnessthe beastthe fleshthe offending adamthe old adamthe roughthe third dimensionthicknessthird-ratenessthroatinessturgidityuglinessuncourtlinessuncouthnessuncultivationundevelopmentuneuphoniousnessunfinishunfinishednessunfledgednessungallantnessungentlemanlinessungracefulnessungraciousnessunmannerlinessunpolitenessunrefinementunripenessunseemlinessunsolicitousnessunspiritualityunwieldinessvulgarism
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5 translations across 5 languages.
Danish
1 entries- grovhed noun (quality of being coarse)
Irish
1 entries- boirbe noun (quality of being coarse)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- grovhet noun (quality of being coarse)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- بیاغیلق noun (quality of being coarse)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Groffheit noun (quality of being coarse)
Sample sentences
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All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. […] Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connection—[…]—such talk had been distressingly out of place.
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This sketch is rather coarse, but probably it is as little exaggerated as could be expected from Walpole. The society which it illustrates abounded with such coarsenesses. Princesses were not expected to exhibit much propriety—nor Duchesses to be overburthened with delicacy.
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Hogarth does not refrain from introducing a sign in his engraving “Noon,” of 1738, showing the Baptist’s head on a charger, with the cynical inscription “Good Eating.” Whether such coarsenesses were actually perpetrated, even under the lax régime of Charles II in England, when frivolity reigned after the fall of Cromwell, it is hard to decide.
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