coarselyadv.
/ˈkɔːsli/, U.S. /ˈkɔrsli/ In a coarse manner, in the various senses of the adjective. In 16th cent. ‘meanly, slightingly, as of little account’.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > [adverb]
coarsely1548
slighta1616
at a discount1798
cheaply1822
the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [adverb] > coarsely
swinelyeOE
greata1425
swinishly1542
coarsely1678
coarse1680
crudely1881
swinely1881
crassly1883
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [adverb] > unmannerly > roughly or with lack of refinement
homelyc1390
rudelyc1405
greata1425
swinishly1542
clubbishly1548
carterly1556
homelily1556
brutishly1580
loutishly1580
boorishly1605
brutely1605
inurbanely1610
mechanically1613
porterly1659
coarsely1678
coarse1680
brutally1824
vulgarly1831
crudely1881
cubbishly1883
yobbishly1984
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. John xvii. f. 105 Men impute me to be very base, and exteme me very courselye.
1565 J. Jewel Replie Hardinges Answeare xii. 455 I maruel it is so coursely answeared.
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iii. v. 57 There is a Gentleman..Reports but coursely of her. View more context for this quotation
1678 N. Wanley Wonders Little World v. i. §96. 468/1 He was coursely used..by a company of rude Mechanicks.
1692 J. Ray Misc. Disc. Dissolution World 32 Take notice how Coursly not to say Ridiculously, the Stoicks Philosophize.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 75. ⁋3 When a Gentleman speaks Coarsly, he has dressed himself Clean to no purpose.
1859 B. D'Israeli in I. D'Israeli Quarrels Auth. in Wks. V. 428 Dryden was very coarsely satirised.
1886 W. C. Magee in Contemp. Rev. Jan. 13 That hell which the coarsely materialistic religion of his day pictured.
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