coarse-fibred

There is neither positive truth nor positive untruth; life is not so coarse-fibred as that.

Maurice Guest 2003

Great trees, amorous birds, frail insects, perceive the subtle influence of the season, and shall not coarse-fibred man rejoice, though there be little or nothing to which he may point as special evidence of inspiration?

Tropic Days 2003

The impoverished hostess may preside at her frugal board with the spirit and the manner of a queen, whereas the coarse-fibred vulgarian vainly heaps his platters with choicest game and rarest fruit, the while he serves the banquet like the churl that he is.

Etiquette Agnes H. Morton

Mrs. Peckham was from the West, raised on Indian corn and pork, which give a fuller outline and a more humid temperament, but may perhaps be thought to render people a little coarse-fibred.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Various

One coarse-fibred brute, indeed, once went so far as to address to her the frightful words, '' Urry up, there, Tottie!

The Man Upstairs and Other Stories 1928

The desire to do the fitting thing is innate in man, and it struck Bill, as he hurried through his toilet, that he must be a shallow, coarse-fibred sort of person, lacking in the finer feelings, not to have passed a sleepless night.

Uneasy Money 1928

Even as he had described her physically she overpowered the senses; she was coarse-fibred, over-coloured, rank.

Widdershins Oliver [pseud.] Onions 1917

The coarse-fibred, pugnacious, and self-seeking would, I had become sure, always carry too many guns for the refined and kindly.

The Best British Short Stories of 1922 John Cournos 1915

With the quick, instinctive sizing-up developed on the athletic field, Bob thought him coarse-fibred, jolly, a little obtuse, but strong -- very strong with the strength of competent effectiveness.

The Rules of the Game Stewart Edward White 1909

It is making no excessive or invidious claim for it to assert that, after one has truly savored its quality, other music, transcendent though it may demonstrably be, seems a little coarse-fibred, a little otiose, a little -- as Jules Laforgue might have said -- _quotidienne_.

Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande A Guide to the Opera with Musical Examples from the Score Lawrence Gilman 1908