roughen
verb (used with or without object)
unroughened
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a word derived from
roughen.
Example Sentences
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No more net-mending for her: for the sake of unroughened hands she had to leave that to Christian and the elders.
From The Unknown Sea by Clemence Housman
Indeed, if she had made some of the dainty lace she was exhibiting, a piece of which was even now entangled about her, she needs must keep both hands unroughened.
From The Motor Girls on Waters Blue Or the Strange Cruise of the Tartar by Margaret Penrose
This turf covered a lawn unroughened by plant or weed; but over it at majestic intervals grew clumps of gray pines and dim-blue, ever wintry firs.
From The Mettle of the Pasture by James Lane Allen
What impressed her most were the inflections of his quiet, musical voice—a voice as unroughened and as gentle as when it wooed her in her father's Northern Castle years before!
From Brooke's Daughter A Novel by Adeline Sergeant
As it disappears it simply fades, and does not at all change its tint as that of measles does, and it leaves the skin unroughened.
From The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases by Charles West
