roughish

Historical Examples of roughish

• From this state of bliss he was rudely awakened by a roughish poke in the back.

  Red Rooney

  R.M. Ballantyne

• I'll watch him, and we can make a roughish sort of bed with the cushions from the gig.

  Bristol Bells

  Emma Marshall

• “Lemons and lamprey” must have had a roughish seat, atop of pig and sour cream.

  Cakes & Ale

  Edward Spencer

• They say he gave his wife a roughish time of it occasionally.

  Smith and the Pharaohs, and Other Tales

  Henry Rider Haggard

• Even as the clerk had said he was a roughish looking customer, and he was sober.

  A Secret of the Lebombo

  Bertram Mitford