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    coarseness


    1. In the self-centered world that exists today, the prevalent attitude is one of coarseness, arrogance, and self-will


    2. baked each day and lacked the coarseness he had come


    3. The coefficient of internal friction relies mainly on the coarseness of aggregates and can be approximately calculated on the Lermit and Turnon formula: where d - middle diameter of particles of


    4. The rock's cold coarseness


    5. Witness the evil coarseness and the brutal ferocity of these supposedly civilized men as they derived a certain form of animal pleasure from this physical attack upon the unresisting Son of Man


    6. Later on she would remember that during the drive her attention had been called to his masculine beauty, except for the coarseness of his hands, but that afterward she had mentioned to Patricia Brown that she had been bothered by his rather proud sense of security


    7. And yet in spite of all there was an air of unextinguishable coarseness about her which it was difficult to describe, but easy to feel


    8. Inactivity does not suit you, and coarseness does not suit a prince consort


    9. mentioned above, regarding the coarseness of grind of the walnuts in the


    10. This depends greatly on the individual and the thickness or coarseness of the hair

    11. Terminal hair begins as the peach fuzz type but later develops color and some degree of coarseness at which point it becomes the terminal type


    12. It was lust--lust for the coarseness of his skin, the rugged, raspiness of his blue-collar hands


    13. All it needed for life was the proper set of ingredients: coarseness and strength, softness and frailty


    14. And those who will reflect on the mysterious energy of Heat,—one of the forms of the universal ether,—on its relations with life and soul, as the source of our chief pleasures and pains,—on its all-pervading power as one of the principal effluences of the Eternal Spirit,—will perhaps somewhat modify their confident assertions of the 'grossness and coarseness, of the views of those who fear that these threatenings may be intended to be taken more 'literally


    15. She was wonder-stricken at his bravery, although she felt in it a sort of indecency and a naive coarseness that scandalised her


    16. Then I suppose that in the city which we are founding you would make a law to the effect that a friend should use no other familiarity to his love than a father would use to his son, and then only for a noble purpose, and he must first have the other's consent; and this rule is to limit him in all his intercourse, and he is never to be seen going further, or, if he exceeds, he is to be deemed guilty of coarseness and bad taste


    17. And he'll never be able to emerge from his bathos of coarseness and ignorance


    18. coarseness of Thomas’ biblical references to sin such as God killing a brother who


    19. the skin of which seemed the smoother and fairer for the coarseness, and


    20. " In spite of the gross flattery and coarseness of this address, Madame Danglars could not forbear gazing with considerable interest on a man capable of expending six millions in twelve months, and who had selected Paris for the scene of his princely extravagance

    21. This coarseness of his angered her, and gave her courage


    22. save for some little thickness and coarseness of the features there


    23. sort of indecency and a naive coarseness that scandalised her


    24. Sometimes, indeed, when I dropped into coarseness, I perhaps came across traces of little understandings between them by which one of them should keep me occupied while the other slipped away


    25. Then he recalled the coarseness and bluntness of her thoughts and the vulgarity of the expressions that were natural to her, though she had been brought up in the most aristocratic circles


    26. And he’ll never be able to emerge from his bathos of coarseness and ignorance


    27. Possibly many of the readers of my novel will feel that in reckoning on such assistance, and being ready to take his bride, so to speak, from the hands of her protector, Dmitri showed great coarseness and want of delicacy


    28. He doesn’t see what refinement of egotism it is on his own part—and at the same time, what ox-like coarseness! Have you ever read of the death of one Stepan Gleboff, in the eighteenth century? I read of it yesterday by chance


    29. The hurried and too barefaced coarseness of these thrusts was obviously premeditated


    30. Their coarseness revolted me

    31. "You don't know Tancred, if you think he will allow your wretched side-saddle to be put on him! Besides, I would not let you break your neck, it would be a pity!" said our host, at that moment of inward gratification affecting, as his habit was, a studied brusqueness and even coarseness of speech which he thought in keeping with a jolly good fellow and an old soldier, and which he imagined to be particularly attractive to the ladies


    32. His face would have been handsome had it not been for a certain bloated appearance, and the soft, yet not elderly, heavy wrinkles that flowed together and enlarged his features, imparting to the whole countenance a general expression of coarseness and of lack of freshness


    33. The military men of the higher ranks, instead of encouraging the coarseness and cruelty of the soldiers, which are necessary for their business, themselves disseminate culture among the military, preach humanitarianism, and frequently themselves share the socialistic convictions of the masses, and reject war


    34. The very coarseness and obviousness of the contradiction sustains them in this conviction


    35. The poverty of the masses is not at all due to the ownership of land, nor to the oppression of capital, but to other causes: it is due to the ignorance, the coarseness, the drunkenness of the masses


    36. In this drama, which is remarkable for its absence of talent and especially for the coarseness of Darcy's conversations with the Abbess, where we can see from the very first words of what love this gentleman is speaking with the apparently innocent and highly moral girl, who is not in the least offended by this,—it appears that the most highly moral people, in the sight of death, to which they are condemned, a few hours before it can do nothing more beautiful than surrender themselves to their animal passion


    37. However much I might detect in Zuchin’s character and amusements an element of coarseness and profligacy, I could also detect the fact that his drinking-bouts were of a very different order to the puerility with burnt rum and champagne in which I had participated at Baron Z


    38. Clean-limbed throughout, with ears that, if they drooped, had no trace of coarseness and were set wide apart above a basin face, the mare showed race indisputably, notwithstanding the white in her forehead was too smudgy to be called a star, or that, though her muzzle tapered finely, the lower lip habitually protruded a bit


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    Synonyms for "coarseness"

    coarseness commonness grossness raunch vulgarism vulgarity nubbiness tweediness graininess granularity saltiness darkness rudeness

    "coarseness" definitions

    language or humor that is down-to-earth


    the quality of being composed of relatively large particles


    looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth)


    the quality of lacking taste and refinement