Example Sentences

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He thinks it has coarsened discourse in the Capitol.

From Washington Post • Nov. 11, 2021

An Upton spokesman said he is doing telephone town halls because political discourse has coarsened so much that traditional ones “have become circus atmospheres.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 24, 2017

Their hubris has lost its glamour of beauty and has coarsened into vulgar insolence.

From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by Locke, William John

Monk Lewis, of course, knew Cazotte, but he has coarsened his original woefully.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George