coarsely

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Constable’s famously crusted, white-flecked surfaces, as seen in this painting’s coarsely textured beams and choppy canal water, and in its windswept, cloud-filled skies, became touchstones in his work.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

Toward the end of their scene together, Kilmer's Iceman gets up from his chair and coarsely tells Cruise: "The Navy needs Maverick".

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2025

As the solvent evaporates, the small particles coalesce and spontaneously organize, coarsely templating layers, and then solidify into dense nanosheets.

From Science Daily • Nov. 8, 2023

For her, the gift of Elvis’ attention is like a secret too precious to be broadcast so coarsely — or indeed shared with anyone else at all.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2023

Then the cousin laughed coarsely and he said to Lotus, who sat there smoking her water pipe, “These town women are too finicking, are they not, Old Mistress?”

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck