roughish
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of roughish
Example Sentences
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One of his interviewees described the smell as "roughish but not as bad as you might think", but there were places "where they tell me the foul air will cause instant death".
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2021
Varies with the stem and leaves either smooth, roughish, or sometimes hairy, also with the leaves all narrower.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Leaves.—Ovate to oblong-lanceolate; three to six inches long; dark green; roughish.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
And soon Claes gave up caressing him, but loved him in a roughish manner, fearing to make a milksop of him.
From The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere by Charles de Coster
They are probably free-and-easy, roughish folks, and it would do her good, a week with them.
From A Bride from the Bush by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
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