gross implies extreme coarseness and insensitiveness.
gross eating habits
obscene applies to anything strongly repulsive to the sense of decency and propriety especially in sexual matters.
obscene language not allowed on the air
ribald applies to what is amusingly or picturesquely vulgar or irreverent or mildly indecent.
entertained the campers with ribald folk songs
Example Sentences
He was a man of middle age with coarse, curly gray hair, a dark, pock-marked complexion and protruding, almost batrachian eyes. Leila Hadley, Give Me the World, (1958) 1999He had a heavy face and a shrivelled nose and thick, coarse, bunched up skin. Paul Theroux, Granta, Summer 1994She'd always been taught—and she'd felt it instinctively—that sun-braised cheeks, sallow skin and reddened hands were coarse and unsightly, the emblem of the foreigner and the day laborer. T. Coraghessan Boyle, The Road To Wellville, 1993Around the throbbing machinery was a frame of coarse wire net. Ursula K. Le Guin, Harper's, August 1990 The dog has a thick, coarse coat. The fabric varies in texture from coarse to fine. See More
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English cors, perhaps from course, noun — see courseentry 1