coarsened
Example Sentences
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And Crawford, his flinty good looks partly hidden by a dark beard and coarsened by the cold Utah air, all but buries David in an inchoate weave of jealousy, confusion and fury.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2021
“Hasn’t our national debate been coarsened enough, and shouldn’t we appreciate the old-school attributes of somebody like Bob Mueller, who declined to engage in hand-to-hand combat with 140 characters?” asked Sandick.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2019
I’m indebted to Luis Gutiérrez, the bumptious congressman from Illinois’s Fourth District, for confirming what I long resisted acknowledging: America’s political discourse has been painfully coarsened.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2017
“I worry that you will grow up in a time of ideological haste, a time of wild conviction and coarsened thought,” she writes.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 3, 2017
Her skin had coarsened a bit over the years, he thought.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
