grossness

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Recent Examples of grossness All your Dad has to do is fill it and drink—the microfilter membrane will do the rest by removing chlorine odors, dirt, bacteria, and any other grossness floating around in there. Francesca Krempa, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2026 There are no great surprises from here on out, though the sheer, lusty grossness of the fallout is occasionally startling. Guy Lodge, Variety, 16 Apr. 2026 If an exclamation point only signified gore and grossness, this gothic rock opera would more than qualify. Rachel Simon, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2026 The characters’ propensity for ugly faces, silliness and a bit of grossness too, stems from the portrayals of girlhood and young womanhood that appeal to them. Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2026 But the grossness still blows me away. Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 21 Feb. 2026 He is charged with open and lewd grossness. Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 24 Oct. 2025 In fact, plenty of other things in your home surpass the toilet in terms of grossness. Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Sep. 2025 Brain rot has become unavoidable, its grossness ubiquitous. Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grossness
Noun
  • The mother of four struggled with obesity and had to take insulin pills and shots daily.
    Andrew Jones, NPR, 30 July 2026
  • Low levels of sleep have been linked to worse mental health outcomes and higher rates of conditions such as heart disease and obesity.
    Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 30 July 2026
Noun
  • The once-vaunted values of public life are now reduced to the lower standards of private life—venality, vulgarity, rudeness, incontinence, and ignorance.
    Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
  • Benoit delights in language as much as her heroine, weaving Regency-era slang throughout and appending a chapter-by-chapter glossary of vulgarities.
    Angelina Mazza, Vulture, 19 June 2026
Noun
  • The once-vaunted values of public life are now reduced to the lower standards of private life—venality, vulgarity, rudeness, incontinence, and ignorance.
    Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
  • Tell her about the long, unwelcome chats, the bullying and the rudeness.
    Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 25 June 2026
Noun
  • Magnesium, on the other hand, shows much more potential, with the same quantity of water containing 2,980 kg (6,570 lb) of the element, roughly the weight of a 2024 Ford F-250 Super Duty Cargo Truck … so, a lot.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 27 July 2026
  • Black Americans have been feeling the weight of this political climate for years now, not as a single blow, but as one thing after another.
    Melissa S. Johnson, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 July 2026
Noun
  • There’s some rudeness, aggressive conversations, and crudeness, but nothing too over the top.
    Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • That feeling stops, however, when pulling into gas stations or parking lots, where the length and lowness of the car require extreme care to keep the chin from scraping.
    Byron Hurd, The Drive, 4 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The phrase assumes that fatness belongs firmly in the past, yet the very need for such a term suggests otherwise.
    Virgie Tovar, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026
  • Because this isn't a book about fatness, despite the central plotline.
    Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 13 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The bucket quickly went viral for its not-safe-for-work suggestiveness.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • The other funnymen of the time—Milton Berle with his lewd suggestiveness, Jackie Gleason with his baleful roar—did the same shtick over and over.
    David Denby, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025

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“Grossness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grossness. Accessed 1 Aug. 2026.

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