raw edge
noun
a rough or bare edge; an edge without any smoothing, finishing, or ornamentation.
raw-edged
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a word derived from
raw edge.
Example Sentences
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Bush, in her mid-20s, left New York City, where she had trained at The Art Students League, and moved with her family to a raw-edged frontier town on the other side of the continent.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 17, 2022
Like its music, the movie feels exploratory and raw-edged, yet with a persistent pathos that clings to Lennon and isolates her.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2022
It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves and blissful gratification.”
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2015
And that she has a real gift for comedy, as effortless in putting across Hazel's goofy gallows humor and raw-edged wit as she is in articulating the character's despairing nihilism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2014
Its very aspect was impressive to eyes that had first surveyed life from the jig-saw "residence" of a raw-edged Western town.
From Crucial Instances by Edith Wharton
