Indelicate, vulgar

Usage examples of coarse.

And Buntokapi of the Anasati, an ill-mannered, coarse braggart at the best of times, had been the son of an Acoma enemy before he had become her husband and Ruling Lord.

Field involved two horses belonging to Luke Lambert, a coarse, cocksure man whom Adams did not like.

Meztli, 132, 135 Michabo, supreme Algonkin god, 63, 116, 136, 161-9, 198, 220, 294 Mictlan, god of the dead, 92, 252 Migrations, coarse of, 34 Milky-way, 244 Millennium, 261 Minnetarees, 228, 230, 250 Mixcoatl, or Mixcohuatl, 22, 51, 158 Mixtecas, 90, 196 Monan, 211 Monquis, 93, 106 Montezuma, 187, 190 Moon, worship of, 130 seq.

It consisted of a rank, coarse kind of grass, and arrowweed, mesquite, and tamarack.

The whole Bankside, with its taverns, play-houses, and worse, its bear pits and gardens, was the scene of roystering and coarse amusement.

It is one of the bitterest apportionments of a lot of slavery, that the negro, sympathetic and assimilative, after acquiring, in a refined family, the tastes and feelings which form the atmosphere of such a place, is not the less liable to become the bond-slave of the coarsest and most brutal,--just as a chair or table, which once decorated the superb saloon, comes, at last, battered and defaced, to the barroom of some filthy tavern, or some low haunt of vulgar debauchery.

Aunt Agnes served a small Irish breakfast that would have felled a field hand: coarse Irish oatmeal and cream, eggs and Irish bacon, battercakes and sausage, and soda bread with butter and jam and quantities of strong hot tea.

Here the goods included the coarse woollen cloth made in most Tibetan households, squares of silk from China, cheap printed material from India, maize and rice from Bhutan, spices, the usual home-grown vegetables, tea-bricks, ritual objects, coral, amber and agate necklaces, talisman boxes and tea-cups of polished birch and maple.

The chemise and outer bliaut were both homespun wool in a drab dun, not overly coarse, but naught that could be considered of a fine quality.

Padstow, Cornwall This book is printed on acid-free paper I Lahaina, Maui, 1854 The warm, coarse beach sand was the odd pinkish color of the squirrelfish, the ocean as deep an aqua as the bluefin trevally.

Piazza Maggiore in the form of a cannon that was the butt of coarse jokes from the Bolognese, and would surely be used against Pope Julius if he were rash enough to lead another army northward.

His rougher and coarser companion, Boltrope, is drawn with scarcely less skill, and with a no less vigorous hand.

Picking his trail from several that fanned out from the bottom of the rocky chute, he made his way out of the rocks and aspen groves onto rolling hills covered with thin, coarse, high-altitude bunchgrasses, then into a broad, shallow bowl that looked like the mouth of an ancient volcano.

Most of the bedding used in covering them, if it be as coarse as it ought to be to admit as much air as possible while it should not mat down on the cabbages, will, with care in drying, be again available for covering another season, or remain suitable for bedding purposes.

The women were dressed in coarse wool garments that hung loose from their shoulders and cloaks in two or three colors of checkerwork on top, and the men .