coarsened

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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

“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

“I worry that you will grow up in a time of ideological haste, a time of wild conviction and coarsened thought,” she writes.

From Washington Post • Aug. 3, 2017

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