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Coarseness Billingsgate site of a London fishmarket, known for foul and abusive language. [Br. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 106] Evelina’s rude, coarse cousins. [Br. Lit.: Evelina] vulgar aristocrat. [Br. Lit.: Vanity Fair] naughty, balloon-headed children. [Am. Lit.: Goops and How To Be Them, Hart, 323] early form of man, Caucasoid and strongly built. [Anthropology: NCE, 1900] vulgar, lecherous nobleman. [Aust. Opera: R. Strauss, Rosenkavalier, Westerman, 423–425] “he expectorates vehemently” [Am. Lit.: At Home and Abroad, Hart, 655] prostitute with vitriolic vocabulary. [Br. Lit.: II Henry IV] race of uncivilized cave dwellers. [Gk. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 1103] symbolizes bad manners and rudeness. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 178] loutish, abusive brutes in shape of men. [Br. Lit.: Gulliver’s Travels] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Elizabeth was shocked to think that, however incapable of such coarseness of EXPRESSION herself, the coarseness of the SENTIMENT was little other than her own breast had harboured and fancied liberal! He described the impression that Rembrandt made on him with a coarseness I cannot repeat. I really had no adequate idea of the coarseness and rudeness which have filtered their way through society in these later times until I saw the reception accorded to my wife. |
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