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
There will be some roughish work, but I don't think you are the sort of men to shirk it.
From The Second String by Nat Gould
Fruit medium, flat, regular; Surface roughish, uneven, greenish-yellow, blushed and russeted; Dots numerous, minute, russet veined.
From American Pomology Apples by J. A. Warder
"Yes, sir, and I've been about among 'em, me and Jones, and there's a sight of people here, sir, as are no tenants of yours, and roughish characters some of 'em."
From Diana Tempest, Volume III (of 3) by Mary Cholmondeley
From hence the wind was roughish generally, but quite fair, so that we frequently ran at the rate of 200 miles in the twenty-four hours, the transport being an excellent sailer.
From Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade by William Surtees
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