rough-spoken

[ ruhf-spoh-kuhn ]

adjective

1. coarse or vulgar in speech.

rough-spoken

adjective

1. rude or uncouth in speech; blunt

Word History and Origins

Origin of rough-spoken¹

First recorded in 1625–35

Example Sentences

One and all they were hard-boiled, used to the open, rough-spoken, and indifferent to Cheyenne's presence.

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He was a rough spoken kind of a man too, I suppose, he insinuated.

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Tenderly those rough handed, rough-spoken men raised the death-frozen little ones.

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He was a boisterous, rough-spoken mortal, but his heart was big, and set in the right place.

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Then Clemantiny went back into the kitchen and cried—good, rough-spoken, tender-hearted Clemantiny sat down and cried.

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