An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
CRASS
crass
(adjective) (of persons) so unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
crass (comparative crasser, superlative crassest)
coarse; crude; unrefined or insensitive; lacking discrimination
materialistic
dense
Lacking finesse; crude and obvious.
Antonyms
• (coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive): delicate, sensitive, refined
Anagrams
• csars, scars
Source: Wiktionary
Crass (krs), a. Etym: [L. crassus thick, fat, gross, prob. orig., closely woven See Crease animal fat, and cf. Crate, Hurdle.]
Definition: Cross; thick; dense; coarse; not elaborated or refined. "Crass and fumid exhalations." Sir. T. Browne. "Crass ignorance" Cudworth.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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