coarsener

English

Etymology

coarsen +‎ -er

Noun

coarsener (plural coarseners)

1. That which makes coarse.
   • 2007 September 8, Virginia Heffernan, “Hated, Loved and Second-Guessed, MTV Is Still a Channel About Stars”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     MTV, you pornographer, you segregationist, you imperialist, you coarsener of culture, you aborter of attention spans.