Coarsest

Men of deserved renown, and peerless women, lived upon what we should now call the coarsest fare, and paced the rushes in their rooms with as high, or as contented thoughts, as their better-fed and better-clothed descendants can boast of. ❋ Arthur Helps (1844)

I am the coarsest of craftsmen, a rough carpenter, an unrefined framer. ❋ W.F. Lantry (2011)

While others in the Order called the immortals miscreats, short for miscreations, Declan often used the term detrus, the coarsest word they had for them. ❋ Kresley Cole (2011)

As it was, I lived ungazed at and unmolested, hardly thanked for the pittance of food and clothes which I gave; so much does suffering blunt even the coarsest sensations of men. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Jack and Lloyd reveal that Jack thinks of women in the coarsest possible terms: he describes Wendy as “the old sperm-bank” and “that bitch.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

I'm fascinated by the way that the coarsest plants often have the most delicate texture to their flowers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They're making off like bandits, finding the lowest, coarsest common denominators and playing them to their political advantage. ❋ Stephanie Sandberg (2011)

Feelings and thoughts than with his coarsest actions. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus, and betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living, from which no solid fruit has yet appeared to justify their separation. ❋ Unknown (2010)

At one end of the spectrum we have the coarsest possible granularity, the discrete monad of a totally self-contained realm, its seams sealed tight -- the "pure" form of an isolation fantasy. ❋ Hal Duncan (2008)

Impossible, says you; even the coarsest voluptuary (guilty, m'lud) couldn't have failed to recognise her, surely? ❋ Unknown (2010)

She dressed in an odd combination of luxury and penury; her most intimate underthings were silk (though muchdarned), but her stockings were of the coarsest and cheapest cotton at five cents the pair, and they were as heavily darned as the silk. ❋ Ryn Cricket (2010)

Level I is the coarsest level, dividing North America into 15 ecological regions. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Level I is the coarsest level, dividing North America into 15 ecological regions, whereas at Level II the continent is subdivided into 52 classes (CEC 1997). ❋ Unknown (2009)