unsmooth
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a word derived from
smooth.
smoothadjectivefree from projections or unevenness of surface; not rough.
Example Sentences
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Venture capital has offered a path into the market for unsmooth operators and bizarre ideas.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 20, 2020
In his lifetime, Wojnarowicz became a star, though an unconventional one, unsmooth, unpredictable, unstylish even, with his clotted paint, uncouth symbols, and jabbing ideas and words.
From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2018
Hence my discomfiture on seeing your videos, where you display a most unsmooth, even scruffy growth of facial hair.
From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2015
Although the selection includes vividly hued color-field paintings, there are strong white accents in several of them, notably Brenda Belfield’s calligraphic “Winter Marks” and Connie Slack’s vigorous, unsmooth “Smooth Jazz.”
From Washington Post
I found strict morals in age and youth, I found historians recording truth; The things I sing of in verse unsmooth, I found them all—I have written sooth.
From A Reading Book in Irish History by P. W. Joyce