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 Gray, Asa
He had a dignified manner, with a deep roughish but not unpleasing voice, and an exalted mode of speaking.
From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney
There's a boat coming in, and the sea has been roughish all day; All our fellows will be on the watch, and I mustn't be out of the way.
From Mr. Punch's Cockney Humour by Various
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 Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
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