ironic (chiefly humorous). Blunt or crude speech. Obsolete.

Absence of grandeur or loftiness in literary style (sometimes with connotation of vulgarity); an instance of this.

figurative. Plainness of speech; coarseness, indelicacy.

Excessive freedom in treating salacious or indecent subject matter; coarse or vulgar freedom of expression. Cf. broad, adj. 6c. Obsolete. rare.