roughish

How to use roughish in a sentence

• When he was doing the Mallarm, he put the paper down on a roughish book cover.

  The Life of James McNeill Whistler | Elizabeth Robins Pennell

• At last they came in sight of a large steamer laboring heavily with a roughish sea and uncertain wind.

  A Noble Woman | Ann S. Stephens

• He could make pretty good play in thick country, and ride a roughish horse, too.

  Robbery Under Arms | Thomas Alexander Browne, AKA Rolf Boldrewood

• Starlight had changed his clothes, and was dressed like a swell—away on a roughish trip, but still like a swell.

  Robbery Under Arms | Thomas Alexander Browne, AKA Rolf Boldrewood

• It's a roughish crossing at Slatey Bar,' and he pointed towards the river, which we could plainly hear rushing over a rocky bed.

  Robbery Under Arms | Thomas Alexander Browne, AKA Rolf Boldrewood