Coarse meaning

Adjective: coarse

Pronunciation: (kors)

Coarse meaning:

• Lacking refinement, cultivation or taste
• Of very low, inferior quality or value
• Of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles

Synonyms: uncouth, vulgar, harsh

Derived forms: coarsest, coarser

Quotations: André Malraux – Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved.

George Eliot – Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

Carl Bernstein – We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

Robert Green Ingersoll – The Bible was written by barbarians in a barbarous, coarse and vulgar age.

Lord Chesterfield – If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

Sample sentences:

1. My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.
2. I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly and seriously on the subject, is silent.
3. The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchically organized, things more than anything else will be done in the name of ”decency’.’ The coarse fumes of tobacco and liquors, the consequent tainting of the breath and staining of white fingers and teeth, which is so offensive to many women, will be the first things attended to.
4. My first impression as I opened the door was that a fire had broken out, for the room was so filled with smoke that the light of the lamp upon the table was blurred by it. As I entered, however, my fears were set at rest, for it was the acrid fumes of strong coarse tobacco which took me by the throat and set me coughing. Through the haze I had a vague vision of Holmes in his dressing-gown coiled up in an armchair with his black clay pipe between his lips.
5. Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.
6. It has a coarse texture and a rich, beefy taste only matched by hanger steak.
7. Coarse they’re tied up and on a harness for safety purposes so there’s no real threat of falling off but yeah, you do have to get past the height issue and looking down a lot.
8. Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
9. I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.
10. Coarse sailing is not mucking around in boats, but boating around in muck.
11. The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow.
12. It is clear from a common sense viewing of the program that coarse language is a part of the culture of the individuals being portrayed. To accurately reflect their viewpoint and emotions about blues music requires airing of certain material that, if prohibited, would undercut the ability of the filmmaker to convey the reality of the subject of the documentary.
13. No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.
14. The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom; He knows himself but does not display himself; He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem.
15. The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages, the simplicity of rural life, and the rusticity of the villager have not been preserved among them; and they are alike unacquainted with the virtues, the vices, the coarse habits, and the simple graces of an early stage of civilization.