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Meanings of coarse jests in English
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Usage of coarse jests in English
1
His hymns soar to heaven and his coarse jests trail in the mire.
2
The men caught hold of her roughly, laughing and flinging out coarse jests.
3
Belle pushed boldly through them, although they leered, laughed, and made coarse jests.
4
All the while their coarse jests and shouts of derisive laughter fill the air.
5
Aristophanes is ridiculing vulgar and coarse jests, which, however, he does not always avoid himself.
6
They piled over one another to get to the bar, with coarse jests and oaths and laughter.
7
Was she like her mother, a vain coquette and a mark for coarse jests and vulgar admiration?
8
His oaths, coarse jests, and scurrilous terms of abuse, were uttered with the broadest accent of his province.
9
Strange rumours reached us concerning his behaviour-rumourswhich came to our ears through the coarse jests of our guards.
10
The rude, coarse jests and noisy laughter of the company grated on her ears, and she longed to make her escape.
11
They sat down with the gentlemen, listening with peals of laughter to their coarse jests, and tempting them to wilder follies.
12
But their obvious incapacity for civil affairs enabled them to venture on nothing more than a few coarse jests and clumsy demonstrations.
13
Fortunately the girl's command of the language, fairly good though it was, was insufficient to enable her to understand their coarse jests.
14
Every evening, while he shivered in his best room, he was compelled to hear the coarse jests and laughter in the adjacent apartment.
15
How could he endure to hear that people had been rude to her, and uttered coarse jests in her hearing aimed only at her ear?
16
[Footnote 4: coarse jests.
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