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Grammar : Noun

Spell : grohs

Phonetic Transcription : groʊs

Definition of grossness

Origin : "size," early 15c., from gross + -ness.

noun obscenity
noun flagrancy

Example sentences :

This man was evil, not with the grossness of a debauchee but with the thinness of the devotee.
Extract from : « Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer » by Cyrus Townsend Brady

I might have known that one of your kind could not rise above the grossness in you.
Extract from : « Tess of the Storm Country » by Grace Miller White

It was all in the other quarter that, after a lull, the grossness broke out.
Extract from : « The Turn of the Screw » by Henry James

The grossness of his comedies rivalled that of Wycherley himself.
Extract from : « History of the English People, Volume VI (of 8) » by John Richard Green

All the grossness, superstition, and bad taste of the age were put into them.
Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner

Because no sin, no grossness has ever shut your ears to all but earthly sounds.
Extract from : « The Return of Peter Grimm » by David Belasco

Newly corrected and purged, from all grossness in phrase and matter.
Extract from : « The Library of William Congreve » by John C. Hodges

Some sense of grossness in him for the first time seared across her brain.
Extract from : « Brand Blotters » by William MacLeod Raine

Their finery, however, threw a veil over any grossness in their conversation.
Extract from : « The Vicar of Wakefield » by Oliver Goldsmith

Still there was no trace of grossness in their form or expression.
Extract from : « The History of Sir Richard Calmady » by Lucas Malet

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