roughen
verb (used with or without object)
unroughened
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a word derived from
roughen.
Example Sentences
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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
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
He was not fat but he was exceedingly well fed; his cheeks were pads, and the unroughened hand which lay helpless upon the khaki-colored blanket was slightly puffy.
From Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
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
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
