(of behaviour considered to be wrong) Highly or conspicuously offensive.
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a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence; a gross insult
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Henry IV. My gracious uncle, let me know my fault:On what condition stands it and wherein?Edmund of Langley. Even in condition of the worst degree,In gross rebellion and detested treason:
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1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene 3]:
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Your very faults, how gross soere, to meHave something pleasing in ’em.
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1682, Aphra Behn, “The City-Heiress”, in et al.[1], London: D. Brown, act IV, scene 1, page 40:
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[…] I thank Heaven I have had Time to reflect on my past Life, where though I cannot charge myself with any gross Villainy, yet I can discern Follies and Vices too sufficient to repent and to be ashamed of;
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1749, Henry Fielding, chapter 10, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book 18, page 336:
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[…] had his actions been what Wickham represented them, so gross a violation of every thing right could hardly have been concealed from the world;
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1813 January 26, [Jane Austen], Pride and Prejudice: […], London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
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[…] he has been found guilty, on the clearest evidence, first, of stealing a valuable motor-car; secondly, of driving to the public danger; and, thirdly, of gross impertinence to the rural police.
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1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, chapter 6, in The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC: