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COARSE





Definition:

  1. [adjective] of texture; large-grained or rough to the touch; "coarse meal"; "coarse sand"; "a coarse weave"

  2. [adjective] lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier
    Synonyms: common, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar

  3. [adjective] of low or inferior quality or value; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population"
    Synonyms: common

  4. [adjective] conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "coarse language"; "a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited"
    Synonyms: crude, earthy, gross, vulgar

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