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Princeton's WordNet

  1. coarselyadverb

    in coarse pieces

    "the surfaces were coarsely granular"

Wiktionary

  1. coarselyadverb

    In a coarse manner.

  2. Etymology: coarse + -ly

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Coarselyadverb

    Etymology: from coarse.

    John came neither eating nor drinking, but fared coarsely and poorly, according to the apparel he wore. Thomas Browne, Vul. Err.

    The good cannot be too much honoured, nor the bad too coarsely used. John Dryden, Fables, Preface.

    Be pleased to accept the rudiments of Virgil ’s poetry, coarsely translated; but which yet retains some beauties of the author. John Dryden, Virgil, Dedication.

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  1. coarsely

    Coarsely typically refers to something that's done in a rough, large, or broad manner or form. It refers to things that are not finely detailed or precise, whether it's a physical characteristic or an action. For example, coarsely ground coffee beans are rough and chunky, as opposed to finely ground beans. It can also refer to a lack of refinement or sophistication in behavior or language.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Coarselyadverb

    in a coarse manner; roughly; rudely; inelegantly; uncivilly; meanly

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of coarsely in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of coarsely in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of coarsely in a Sentence

  1. Fyodor Dostoyevsky:

    Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

  2. Wyndham Lewis:

    With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called the Public, the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.

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