coarsener

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English

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Etymology

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coarsen +‎ -er

Noun

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coarsener (plural coarseners)

  1. That which makes coarse.
    • 2007 September 8, Virginia Heffernan, “Hated, Loved and Second-Guessed, MTV Is Still a Channel About Stars”, in New York Times[1]:
      MTV, you pornographer, you segregationist, you imperialist, you coarsener of culture, you aborter of attention spans.