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UK
/kˈɔːsnəs/
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NOUN
- the quality of lacking taste and refinement
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language or humor that is down-to-earth
self-parody and saltiness riddled their core genre
the saltiness of their language was inappropriate - the quality of being composed of relatively large particles
- looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth)
How To Use coarseness In A Sentence
- Besides grating cheese, my wife likes the coarseness for grating zucchini and carrots for baking.
- Sadly, decency has been replaced in great measure by coarseness hence the absence of remorse or contrition.
- This really depends on different factors such as hair color, the coarseness of the hair and the type of the skin.
- Indeed, for well defined dynamical domains, changing the coarseness does not modify significantly its definition.
- The coarseness of the ingredients will wash the dead cell when you remove the mixture from face.
- But these places are not dirtier than a railway smoking-car; and there is no more coarseness than in any ferryboat which is, for whatever reason, used by men only. Women and the Alphabet A Series of Essays
- I did not like the sentimental coarseness of Mr. Grattan's speech.
- Her pallor that morning refined the indubious coarseness of her face, and changed vulgarity into the attractive originality of a spirited character. London River
- Miner, "who advises me to" do the right thing by M'liss, "or intimates somewhat obscurely that he will" bust my crust for me, "which, though complimentary in its abstract expression of interest, and implying a taste for euphonism, evinces an innate coarseness which I fear may blunt his perceptions of delicate shades and Greek outlines. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers
- Larger whetstones for sharpening iron tools were an important part of everyday equipment and were widely traded, especially since varying degrees of coarseness were required to produce a finely honed edge.