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A classic, of course, is coarse . This word seems to have popped up in the early 15th century, as an adjectival form of course `ordinary order' or `normal manner.
The Dutch, most notably, have adopted an English expletive too coarse to reproduce here (though if I say, “hits the fan” I expect you'll be with me), but they use it as a mild and largely meaningless epithet, roughly equivalent to our gosh or golly or even just hmmmm --to such an extent, I am told that they must now take special care not to startle English-speaking visitors.
Confronted recently with a coarse question as to whether the United States was "willing to talk to Milosevic," Lockhart stonily replied, "The NATO alliance has made demands, and he needs to meet them."
The peasants themselves often had nothing but bread or bread and coarse wine.
Also, simulations using contaminant data located close to the true mode (67 thpercentile) showed that mode estimators performed poorly under those conditions, as noted elsewhere [ 2 ] , especially with the normal and coarse original distributions.
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