Meaning of Grossness | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Lack of refinement in character, behaviour etc.; coarseness.
   countable, uncountable
2. The quality of being repulsive or disgusting.
   countable, slang, uncountable
3. Size.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Now that he was doing so much else she could never have⟳ the grossness to apply⟳ for it to Sir Claude.”

“He […] began to descend to familiar questions, endeavouring to accommodate his discourse to the grossness of rustic understandings. The clowns soon found that he did not know⟳ wheat from rye, and began to despise him; one of the boys, by pretending to show⟳ him a bird's nest, decoyed him into a ditch; […]”

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