Word: coarsest
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...English nose, bowed and smiled her acknowledgments and retired, only to be recalled again and again. The atmosphere was English, the people were English and everything was appreciated to the highest degree. That familiar and distressing form of English humor which is indicated by a series of the coarsest puns was entirely lacking, and in its place was a crisp dialogue, full of good things, and as sparkling as champagne. Original music was admirably sung by excellent voices, while the comedians were actually and genuinely funny. The wealth of pretty girls, the gay dancing, the gorgeous costumes...
From the poems of Homer we get a very clear notion of Homeric civilization. It differed from that of the later Greek life; it was an age of transformation, where the noblest tendencies were strangely crossed by the coarsest ones. He has depicted this life so clearly by telling his story in the words and actions of his characters, keeping himself in the back ground. The language and the thought harmonize beautifully, the language showing an astonishing adaptability of the varying phases of the thought...