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Meanings of grossness in English
Synonyms
Examples for "vulgarity"
Examples for "vulgarity"
1
The experience made her savvy about the vulgarity of the film industry.
2
That's what he said, he said it in German, complete with vulgarity.
3
Rector Owl was forced to become explicit to the point of vulgarity.
4
In woman, refinement of character is never found in vulgarity of dress.
5
Our Mr Swann is also given to florid outbursts of baroque vulgarity.
1
All the bluntness and coarseness of feeling in the workmanship of fig.
2
Then there had been recklessness, something of coarseness, in the fine face.
3
Even the Romans, with all their coarseness, stood higher in this respect.
4
His face was inflamed with suppressed impatience, which accentuated its natural coarseness.
5
He condemns Swift for his coarseness and praises Johnson for his outspokenness.
1
With such, the venal commonness of affection first profanes, then destroys it.
2
The reason may lie in the very commonness of our opportunities.
3
The demand marks the commonness, narrowness, low-levelled satisfaction of the age.
4
This would affix him eternally to commonness in her mind.
5
Exquisite taste was married with a commonness that was glaring.
1
There are gradations in awkwardness and vulgarism, as there are in everything else.
2
Why,' said the prof, 'to employ a vulgarism, perspicuity is my penultimate appellative.'
3
You are not-ifI may be permitted an expressive vulgarism-inthe same street with them.
4
Punning is a vulgarism that should be scrupulously avoided.
5
No, in good truth: who can like such vulgarism!
1
Expect a mix of comedy, acrobatics, dance and a touch of raunch.
2
But, more and more, women are bringing the raunch to the screen.
3
Photograph: YouTube Every Xmas playlist needs a bit of raunch and Big Cynthia delivers.
4
There was a good-natured quality to the raunch, like fun was still an erotic idea.
5
Here, this belter of a track gets an added bolt of rock and roll raunch.
Usage of grossness in English
1
I thought perhaps the effervescence would help break up the grimy grossness.
2
He was aware of a glimmer of advocacy in the very grossness.
3
He is simply disgusted with the grossness and vulgarity of it all.
4
Still there was no trace of grossness in their form or expression.
5
His charity must partake of the contraction and grossness of his self-love.
6
The once hardy, abstemious mode of living degenerated into grossness and sensuality.
7
He saw this now, and writhed under the sense of his grossness.
8
Their finery, however, threw a veil over any grossness in their conversation.
9
Nothing could exceed the grossness and the unbalanced folly of Peter's course.
10
If this grossness and harshness should, after all, be his real life!
11
It is of a grossness, of... of a prurience almost... Mon Dieu!
12
Not discovery; not the grossness of exposure; but this intolerable security.
13
The very grossness and obviousness of the inconsistency confirms them in this conviction.
14
His grossness was apparently not in the way of fleshly appetites.
15
Weltering in grossness, she could still be touched by the sight of purity.
16
The rotting ways of nature interact hypnotically with its utter grossness.
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