coarse-grained

coarse-grained
coarse-grainedness, n.
/kawrs"graynd", kohrs"-/, adj.
1. having a coarse texture or grain.
2. indelicate; crude; vulgar; gross: a coarse-grained person with vulgar manners.
[1760-70]

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