The social mood grew coarse and parochial.

His senses dulled; his skin grew thick and coarse, like heavy plastic.

I feel her hands grow coarse and stiff from dyeing threads in the winter.

The image in the world-window began to grow blurry and coarse, with wisps of shadow closing in around the edges.

At other times, it grew deliberately coarse or heavy in contrast to the music.

And so she grew coarse and shoddy with frustration.

His tone grew grainy and ultimately coarse, with a sense of strain painfully evident.

The consensus was that the playing of the Philharmonic had grown careless and coarse during the Mehta era.

Over time, the atmosphere grew more coarse, she said, until it was dominated by sexually explicit conversation and behavior.

She is grown so brown and coarse!