Crossword clues for coarsened
coarsened
The Collaborative International Dictionary
coarsened \coarsened\ adj. made coarse or crude by lack of skill; -- sometimes used to mean inferior.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: coarsen)
WordNet
adj. made coarse or crude by lack of skill
Usage examples of "coarsened".
He was a perfectionist, and he believed his mind was perfect, but a thing was blunted and coarsened as soon as it was made: pure thought could not be transformed into matter, and nothing could be brought to perfection.
Not long ago he had her lovely solemn faceMoura thought of it as her mother's facebut this past year, the onset of his late adolescence, had coarsened it.
He was tall like Fizzy, he had Fizzy's fleshy lips and narrow bonesand even this wilderness had not coarsened his hands.
Motorcycle gangs from Olcott Beach, and Erie, Pennsylvania, with straggly greasy hair, beards and black leather and swastika tattoos whose leaders, photographed for the Buffalo News, resembled older, coarsened brothers of John Reddy Heart.
The fine grained skin which should have been delicate and firm had coarsened also and upon close inspection showed multitudes of tiny lines.
Deep russet, once strawberry blond but coarsened now by age and the incursion of rebellious wiry silver hairs, a tangle of curls ran riot over the pillow.
Like the roses exploding on the ends of their coarsened and darkened stems and the leaves with so many points and tiny veins to them.