Another word for coarse
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Adjective
Lacking in delicacy or refinement
Offensive to accepted standards of decency
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Another word for coarse
Modifier
Lacking in refinement
Of poor quality
Synonym Study
- Ribald suggests such mild indecency or lewdness as might bring laughter from those who are not too squeamish ribald jokes
- Obscene is used of that which is offensive to decency and implies lewdness obscene gestures
- Vulgar emphasizes a lack of culture, refinement, or good taste vulgar ostentation, or may imply indecency vulgar language
- Indelicate suggests impropriety, immodesty, or tactlessness an indelicate remark
- Gross suggests a crudeness or coarseness that is brutish or repellent gross table manners
- Coarse , in this comparison, implies such a lack of refinement in manners or speech as to be offensive to one's aesthetic or moral sense coarse laughter
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