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Example sentences for "grossest"

Lexicographically close words:
gross; grosse; grossen; grosser; grosses; grossi; grossly; grossness; grot; grotesque
  1. They knocked at the door, threw stones, and applied the grossest expressions to his modest spouse.

  2. In my view that is the most concise statement that I can imagine, of the grossest fallacy in all politics.

  3. Not only was he guilty of the grossest immorality, but he conspired with assassins from Missouri, to take the life of the Prophet; and even conducted them himself to the house of Joseph.

  4. But such embarrassment could last but a moment with a woman conscious of the power to atone by a smile for the grossest insult.

  5. Although, at the time at which Abraham is said to have lived, the knowledge of an abstract dual or triune God still remained, yet, during the five hundred years which elapsed until the time of Moses, the grossest idolatry had come to prevail.

  6. It is plain that at the time of their bondage in Egypt the Jews had become the grossest phallic worshippers, adoring the emblems of generation, with no thought of their earlier significance as pure symbols of creative force in mortals.

  7. Footnote: One of the grossest and most prevalent forms of fraud was that of selling doctored-up horses to the Union army.

  8. In times of peace the commercial interests had practiced the grossest frauds in corruptly imposing upon the Government every form of shoddy supplies.

  9. The manufacture and sale of patent medicines were attended with the grossest frauds.

  10. Lacheneur had not hesitated to utter the grossest falsehoods in his anxiety to gain followers to his cause.

  11. It is notorious that Mohammed was a man of the grossest licentiousness; and the horrible and disgusting thing about it is that he grew more wicked as he grew older; and while trying to put restraint upon others put none upon himself.

  12. The first law of the Koran was the extermination of idolatry, but the Hindoos were the grossest of idolaters.

  13. The most effectual forms of invocation and exorcism, and the most potent spells of magic, were said to have been composed by him, and thus the grossest superstition of the nation acquired the sanction of their wisest king.

  14. The exceeding prevalence of such arts alone proves the existence of the grossest ignorance and superstition.

  15. To all his questions, Carrier replied in the grossest language.

  16. Certain persons are disposed to pervert the events of May 31 and June 2, by atrocious exaggerations and the grossest fables, and prevent the fortunate results they present from being seen.

  17. Yet, how was he to reveal it, without the basest breach of confidence, and the grossest ingratitude towards a man who had been risking all to serve him?

  18. Drunkenness and the grossest vices have spread disease and death among them.

  19. That he should have done so without the grossest provocation no one will believe.

  20. It is a libel of the grossest kind, and of course there would be a prosecution.

  21. The grossest calumnies the foulest lies, were industriously circulated, to lower their prestige, and bring about a downfall of that spiritual power they had justly acquired, and were exercising for the good of souls.

  22. The venerable Bishop was subjected to the grossest indignities.

  23. One of the grossest images may be found in Irenaeus (l.

  24. The grossest ignorance does not disgust me like this ignorant knowingness.

  25. They were a parcel of blackguards, armed with weapons of every description, and shouting the grossest abuse, whilst they proceeded at a rapid rate towards the Tuileries.

  26. The Russian officers were unanimous in their reprobation of Bennigsen, who has betrayed the army, they say, if not by downright treachery, at least by the grossest ignorance and utter want of energy.

  27. A repetition in narrative of matters already seen in action is the grossest of technical blunders.

  28. He finds, on the contrary, that he is wanted merely to decide a foolish bet; and he is treated with the grossest insolence and contempt.

  29. A State like Russia cannot overlook the existence of sects which preach the duty of systematic resistance to the civil and ecclesiastical authorities and hold doctrines which lead to the grossest immorality.

  30. By fraud, by the grossest insult to his predecessors, and to an oecumenical council.

  31. One day, report said, after dining with the lady, he descended to the kitchen, and began twitting the girl about the confessional, and coupling this with the grossest charges against the Catholic clergy.

  32. In the midst of grossest pro-slavery action, they are full of anti-slavery sentiment.

  33. The grossest materialism, at times, reveals something of that latent dread of an invisible and spiritual influence which is inseparable from our nature.

  34. Fine gentlemen in London vied with each other in the lowest ribaldry and the grossest profanity.

  35. She treated even the most distinguished of her colleagues with haughty disdain, and often with the grossest discourtesy; and poor Mlle.

  36. This epistle, without doubt, mingled errors of the grossest kind with the expression of the most generous resolutions.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grossest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.