Gross

(noun.) the entire amount of income before any deductions are made.

(noun.) twelve dozen.

(verb.) earn before taxes, expenses, etc..

(adj.) repellently fat; 'a bald porcine old man' .

(adj.) lacking fine distinctions or detail; 'the gross details of the structure appear reasonable' .

(adj.) before any deductions; 'gross income' .

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• His heart tingled with the pleasing conviction that these gross eulogiums shamed Moore deeply, and made him half scorn himself and his work. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The Wilmington expedition has proven a gross and culpable failure. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The gross tonnage of ships passing through in 1898 was 12,962,632, the net tonnage 9,238,603. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Resources do not depend upon gross amounts, but upon the proportion of spendings to takings. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I should have thought it a gross violation of duty and respect. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• I had worked two chairs with my knife, the sorrel nag helping me in the grosser and more laborious part. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Grosser insult was never offered to a friendly people. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Miss Brooke knows that they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• If you allow yourself to doubt that my husband was Anne's father, you personally insult me in the grossest manner. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• This must be the grossest falsehood! 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Without my diary, I doubt--pray let me express it in the grossest terms! 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.

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