scrappy, grit, workmanlike, grimy, hardscrabble, gutsy, noirish, tenacious, grungy, steely, blue collar, edgy, riveting, feisty, moody, plucky, rawboned, streetwise, seedy, scruffy, drab, rollicking, dostoyevskian, thrilling, unshowy, pulsating, unflashy, ragged, brash, raucous, nitty, unglamorous, rugged, spirited, hardboiled, gutty, forgettable, ramshackle, flinty, pugnacious, captivating, uncompromising, seamy, pulpy, gruff, harrowing, stoic, picaresque, stolid, quirky, brutal, grisly, runyonesque, spunky, engrossing, swashbuckling, nihilistic, desolate, film noir, flashy, classy, scintillating, earthy, breezy, taut, mesmerizing, nervy, dreary, dazzling, unsentimental, unassuming, ferocious, brawny, fearless, visceral, brutish, epic, beguiling, jarring, soulful, cinema verite, rangy, enthralling, uninspired, frenetic, heroic, ballsy, rousing, dour, wry, unflinching, punkish, raffish, unpolished, ruthless, dank, cliched, punky, melancholic, unremarkable, quintessential, spellbinding, stony, boring, bread, dirt, watery, near, ashes, brick, clinker, crisp, earth, husk, mortar, outside, petty, put, raw, running, shingle, grainy, chalky, crumbly, friable, loamy, powdery, clayey, finegrained, softer, flaky, silicious, sticky, structureless, calcareous, grained, argillaceous, ferruginous, greyish

., pear, pear tree, pyrus communis, sorb, sorb apple

brave, coarse, coarse-grained, courageous, farinaceous, fearless, game, gamey, gamy, grainy, granular, granulose, mealy, mettlesome, sandy, spirited, spunky