coarsen the surface. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
coarsen one's ideals. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
TADA: This will coarsen our sensibilities as a culture. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2005] Reference
Their disdain for traditional morals will coarsen our culture. From Wordnik.com. [The Obama Diaries] Reference
One cannot coarsen what has ALREADY been coarsened by the left. .nt. From Wordnik.com. [“Coarsening.” - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState] Reference
RAPHAEL: ... in terms of it -- it can be said to coarsen public taste. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 13, 2002] Reference
Their faces coarsen, their features thicken, they grow fur on the larynx. From Wordnik.com. [You Live Once]
The only thing Sasha Cohen did was coarsen our dialogue and cheapen our culture. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Stein hates Borat.] Reference
The bird's silky down began to coarsen and fray, and its beak began to harden and grow. From Wordnik.com. [Old Egg] Reference
"They'd be wise to respect that spirit and not coarsen its meaning to suit their own brutal agendas.". From Wordnik.com. [The Dreamthief's Daughter]
One man even advised me to “coarsen the texture”, as being remote from the speed of the main narrative!. From Wordnik.com. [A Life in Letters] Reference
But there really can be no justification for using it to feather the nests of those who coarsen our society. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
May 23, 2006, 12: 25 am ephedra free weight loss says: ephedra free weight loss coarsen reacted conquers charmingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » CBS and the media more broadly:] Reference
He began to harden and coarsen into something Hollywood-horrible long before he became controversial for The Passion. From Wordnik.com. [The Torturer's Apprentice: James Wolcott] Reference
He did so second because he could see that measures of revenge were likely to coarsen the French revolutionary regime. From Wordnik.com. [Reactionary Prophet] Reference
In such places, people's very numbers shut them off from those basic things and coarsen the quality of their experience. From Wordnik.com. [The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior] Reference
Drop the deeds and all our refinements begin to coarsen, and we make no response to our brother's cries of need and pain. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
Wilma would not walk too close to the water's edge as the salt from the sea would make her skin rough and coarsen her hair. From Wordnik.com. [One Night for Love]
How I miss my youth—thats only relative of course but already lines are beginning to coarsen in other people and thats the sure sign. From Wordnik.com. [A Life in Letters] Reference
I have yet begun to 'coarsen'. nt. From Wordnik.com. [“Coarsening.” - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState] Reference
A ratings chase and a revenue chase combine to coarsen the debate. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
Hoeing corn and washing in the river does not coarsen well-born women. From Wordnik.com. [Lazarre] Reference
She had a fineness of build which even the housework of a farm could not coarsen. From Wordnik.com. [The Lilac Sunbonnet] Reference
Does Maobama have to continue to coarsen the national dialogue by using language like this. From Wordnik.com. [Jihad Monitor] Reference
To get the best out of it, he realized that one must coarsen instead of refine the senses and aptitudes. From Wordnik.com. [Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life] Reference
But what we cannot do, what we must not do, is allow that anger, to coarsen our politics, or divide our country. From Wordnik.com. [Labour Press Office - Press Release Summaries] Reference
The very conditions, too, under which the people live must have a tendency to coarsen and to destroy artistic feelings. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of Judgment] Reference
"For another, I hate to see you burn the loveliest hair I ever saw on the head of a woman, and coarsen your fine skin.". From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of the Land] Reference
If he is brought to cold hill-country in Australia his coat at once begins to coarsen, and his wool is therefore not so good. From Wordnik.com. [Peeps At Many Lands: Australia] Reference
Heating steel at even moderate temperature is liable to coarsen the grain which can only be restored by forging or by heat treating. From Wordnik.com. [The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel] Reference
I was thinking that it was a shame to coarsen such hands with housework. ". From Wordnik.com. [Lady Good-for-Nothing] Reference
"I guess she got to feeling so sure of herself she let her work coarsen up. From Wordnik.com. [Somewhere in Red Gap] Reference
He will coarsen and snore. From Wordnik.com. [The Waves] Reference
Does it "coarsen our political discourse"?. From Wordnik.com. [Ellis Weiner: My Wife Just Figured It Out] Reference
To these my locks of coarsen jet. From Wordnik.com. [Toward the Gulf] Reference
This in turn tended to coarsen his methods. From Wordnik.com. [Never-Fail Blake] Reference
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