"expression" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The Constitution protects coarse expressions as well as refined, and vulgarity no less than elegance.
- One Republican staff aide characterized the letter as telling the Democrats to go jump in the lake, although he used a coarser expression.
- He uses "coarse" and mundane poetic expressions to make his message effective and realistic.
- Or perhaps it was his black, uncombed hair standing up on end in all directions, or else his coarse, tough expression.
- The odd simile suited her own peculiar mode of speech, so full of girls' boarding-school slang and the coarse expressions which troubled Ludens.
- If she refuses, he threatens her with the law, the barbarous law, which, to use his own coarse expression, will "restore his conjugal rights."
- There was an outburst of delighted guffaws at the coarse expression.
- But when it is used as a coarse expression, the "u" is elided.
- I can," he said, "and if you don't want to learn a good many coarse expressions right swiftly.
- His features were, in themselves, perfect; it was only his cloudy, uncouth, and coarse expression that disfigured them.
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