Words similar to grittiness

Example sentences for: grittiness

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Just as the staid, old British English was rejuvenated after the First World Was by the injection of American, no-nonsense grittiness, so modern American English is being saved; this time by the charge of honest and potent street-talk into the flim-flam and flummery of the body linguistic.
It earns praise for having restored grittiness to the whimsical tradition of magical realism.