11. Even in a time when political discourse has been cheapened and coarsened , such behavior is despicable. 12. On some of the new routes " coarsened " rather than flat fares were to be introduced. 13. The singers, too, might have been coarsened by all the activity they had to indulge in. 14. It must also be said that these attacks coarsened political discourse in ways that have never quite been repaired. 15. Even the language of humor has changed, coarsened by the criminal jargon that has crept into Russian speech. 16. First there were the sound bites of the candidates-to-be, spewing promises in voices coarsened by ambition. 17. Even by the coarsened standards of our age, Wednesday's terror bombing in Sri Lanka evokes a peculiar horror. 18. His French accent, offered in a deep, gravelly voice coarsened by years of cigarette smoking, was easily imitated. 19. On albums, Morrison's voice has coarsened over the years, but his concerts offer glimpses of his old nuance. 20. In the last decades of the 19th century, Alger's moral tone coarsened with the change in boys'tastes.
