The Clue
Unrefined (6 letter answer)
The Answer
COARSE
Tags
Notes
The answer COARSE is uncommon, appearing about once every 525 puzzles.
Related Clues
Crude
Gauche
Gross
Harsh
Inelegant
Loutish
Ribald
Rough
Sandpaperish
Scratchy
Unsmooth
Vulgar
Ill-bred
Lacking delicacy
Not cultured
Not polished
Rough-cut
Like a hair shirt
Like a rasp file
Not fine-grained
Unsuitable for mixed company
Using one's shirtsleeve as a napkin, e.g.
Definition
COARSE as an adjective:
1. (coarse, harsh) = of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles; "coarse meal"; "coarse sand"; "a coarse weave"
2. (coarse, common, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar) = lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich"
3. (coarse, common) = of low or inferior quality or value; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population"
4. (coarse, crude, earthy, gross, vulgar) = conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "coarse language"; "a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited"