toughish

How to use toughish in a sentence

• They had to sink nearly forty feet to get to the gold strata, and part of the sinking was through a toughish kind of rock.

  Grif | B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

• Thus cried another sailor—a toughish customer also—and, as his voice rang out, a dozen more came running to the spot.

  Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea | Charles H. L. Johnston

• The tufts are from six inches to over a foot broad, very much branched, fibrous-fleshy, toughish.

  The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise | M. E. Hard

• The meat, being just killed, may be somewhat toughish, but I'll warrant it fresh and high-flavoured.

  Rowlandson the Caricaturist. Second Volume | Joseph Grego

• And the resemblance was further increased by the fact that he was “a toughish lot”, who was “little, but steel and india-rubber”.

  The Gold Bat | P. G. Wodehouse