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
After leaving New Orleans early in April, 1903, she encountered roughish weather in the Gulf of Mexico.
From The Strand Magazine, Volume XXVII, Issue 160, April, 1904 by Various
Culm 1–2° high; leaves roughish; panicle open; glumes unequal, lanceolate, their midrib and the pedicels rough.—N.
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
I turned to the lackey, a roughish fellow named Luke Blacket who had admitted me.
From Lawrence Clavering by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
Finely pubescent and roughish, 3–7° high; leaves sessile, ovate-oblong, acute, triply-nerved above, the broadly cuneate base, serrulate; scales loose, attenuate, mostly 6–8´´ long, hairy.
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
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