#coarse

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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