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Coarsely

In a coarse manner; roughly; rudely; inelegantly; uncivilly; meanly.

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Coarse 66% connected

Large in bulk, or composed of large parts or particles; of inferior quality or appearance; not fine in material or close in texture; gross; thick; ro…

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Finely 94% connected

In a fine or finished manner.

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In a fine or finished manner.

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Abjectly adverb · 78% connection

Meanly; servilely.

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Abusively adverb · 78% connection

In an abusive manner; rudely; with abusive language.

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Backbite verb · 78% connection

To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent).

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Baldly adverb · 78% connection

Nakedly; without reserve; inelegantly.

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Borrel noun · 78% connection

Coarse woolen cloth; hence, coarse clothing; a garment.

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Brat noun · 78% connection

A coarse garment or cloak; also, coarse clothing, in general.

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Broach noun · 78% connection

To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool.

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Buss verb · 78% connection

To kiss; esp. to kiss with a smack, or rudely.

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Bustle verb · 78% connection

To move noisily; to be rudely active; to move in a way to cause agitation or disturbance; as, to bustle through a crowd.

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Cadge v. t. & i. · 78% connection

To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg.

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Cheirotherium noun · 78% connection

A genus of extinct animals, so named from fossil footprints rudely resembling impressions of the human hand, and believed to have been…

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Contumelious adjective · 78% connection

Exhibiting contumely; rudely contemptuous; insolent; disdainful.

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Cot noun · 78% connection

A small, rudely-formed boat.

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Cringeling noun · 78% connection

One who cringes meanly; a fawner.

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Crouch verb · 78% connection

To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe.

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Curt adjective · 78% connection

Characterized by excessive brevity; short; rudely concise; as, curt limits; a curt answer.

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Dastard noun · 78% connection

One who meanly shrinks from danger; an arrant coward; a poltroon.

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Dastardly adjective · 78% connection

Meanly timid; cowardly; base; as, a dastardly outrage.

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