grossness
Noun
Meaning
The state or quality of being gross; thickness; corpulence; coarseness; shamefulness.
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Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.
In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed of perfection.
She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook.
They in their desire for health commit themselves to physicians, but these people show no willingness to cast off the soul-sickness of their untrained grossness by resorting to wise men....
A strange persuasion came upon me that, save for the grossness of the line, the grotesqueness of the forms, I had here before me the whole balance of human life in miniature, the whole interplay of instinct, reason, and fate in its simplest form.
Billy Bennett – I speak of the artist – was forthright, bawdy, and wholesome...[His] grossness had that gusto about it which is like a high wind blowing over a noisome place.