coarsened
Example Sentences
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In today’s coarsened climate, fretting about rules of politeness seems futile.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
In these landscapes, naturalism and abstraction often battle to a pulsating draw by means of a magnified, or coarsened pointillism that recalls Seurat in its mosaic-like array of dots, dashes and commas.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2024
To say our politics have coarsened over the past few decades is like noting that temperatures drop and daylight shortens as we settle into autumn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
He thinks it has coarsened discourse in the Capitol.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2021
He reminded me of the Big Boy at the Elias Brothers’ chain of restaurants, only older, coarsened and bloated by adult vices.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
