coarsen
verb (used with or without object)
to make or become coarse.
coarsened
Example Sentences
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He thinks it has coarsened discourse in the Capitol.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2021
And Crawford, his flinty good looks partly hidden by a dark beard and coarsened by the cold Utah air, all but buries David in an inchoate weave of jealousy, confusion and fury.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2021
“Hasn’t our national debate been coarsened enough, and shouldn’t we appreciate the old-school attributes of somebody like Bob Mueller, who declined to engage in hand-to-hand combat with 140 characters?” asked Sandick.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2019
I’m indebted to Luis Gutiérrez, the bumptious congressman from Illinois’s Fourth District, for confirming what I long resisted acknowledging: America’s political discourse has been painfully coarsened.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2017
Her skin had coarsened, tanned from all the time they were spending in the yard sitting beneath the brazen sun.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
