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n. - The quality of lacking taste and refinement.

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  • With succeeding Lord Horror works, each one aims to out-do the preceding one in grossness.
  • Yet even here the grossness is but little more pronounced than what we find in our old drama (e. g.,
  • It would be too simple to call grossness the last (or the next) frontier, although some critics out there will, but
  • It wasn't scary or traumatic; it was gross, but it was the kind of grossness that pre-teen boys revel in.
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