coarseness
Example Sentences
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Coarseness reinforces the message that the candidate is different.
From The Guardian • Jun. 22, 2016
Coarseness in grain, usually revealed by the lower half of a man's countenance, had with the elder Rickman taken up its abode in the superior, the intellectual region.
From The Divine Fire by Sinclair, May
Coarseness is safer by a great deal," said Aunt Jane, "in the hands of a man like Philip.
From Malbone: an Oldport Romance by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
Coarseness, rudeness, tyranny, are so many forms of brute power; so many manifestations of what it is man's peculiar glory not to be; but kindness and gentleness can never cease to be MANLY.
From Friends and Neighbors by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)
Coarseness and meanness are on no account to be tolerated.—
From Pedagogics as a System by Brackett, Anna C. (Anna Callender)
Vocabulary lists containing coarseness
A Room of One's Own
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