coarse
英[kɔːs]
美[kɔrs]
英英释意
- 1. of texture; large-grained or rough to the touch;
- "coarse meal"
- "coarse sand"
- "a coarse weave"
- 2. 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--a real tough guy"
- "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"
- "the vulgar display of the newly rich"
- 3. of low or inferior quality or value;
- "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare
- "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population"
- 4. 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"