How To Use Rough-and-ready In A Sentence
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Despite concerted attempts to soften his rough-and-ready image, Latham found it difficult to shake off a reputation for aggression after breaking a taxi driver's arm in a dispute over a fare three years ago.
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It may work in a rough-and-ready way, since the governments represented on the security council will be bribed, blackmailed, browbeaten and bludgeoned into submission over the next fortnight.
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I never could get over a tendency to a rough-and-ready sort o 'feedin'.
Post Haste
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The figure illustrates the kind of synchrony that Lieberman is highlighting -- over a sweep of some thousand years, there is a rough-and-ready correspondence in the patterns of territorial consolidation that existed in Burma and France.
Strange parallels
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12 a.m. - Zip across on the train, a five-minute or so ride, to Kaohsiung's rather rough-and-ready neighbor Fongshan.
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The advent of television news, changing public tolerance for violence, and the increasing fustiness of newspaper owners were already conspiring to make this sort of rough-and-ready tabloid fare a thing of the past.
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Runaround's rough-and-ready approach would probably be considered too much for modern audiences, who seem to like their presenters as unthreatening and child-like as possible.
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Just because he's venal and rough-and-ready with the law doesn't mean he's evil.
THE CRASH OF HENNINGTON
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In a rough-and-ready sports car, it might have been fine, but it lacked the kind of pinkie-in-the-air refinement the SM deserved.
Jalopnik
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He is about as unponcy as they come and while, in a cooking context, his rough-and-ready approach may unnerve the hygiene queens, it's a relief from all the aproned men with slick hairdos and oven thermometers.
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But under NEP many of the more hardened Bolsheviks found that their rough-and-ready methods were no longer appreciated by party organizers who now worked in neat offices with neat typists and neat rows of rubber stamps.
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Highly clannish, these tribes were organized in tight kinship groups with commonly held property and a rough-and-ready sort of representative government regarding matters other than military.
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To soak up a little of the famous Nashville atmosphere, head for the honky-tonks in Downtown, a row of rough-and-ready bars all playing covers of your favourite country songs.
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Despite the terrifying headlines about encumbering graduates with mountains of debt, in practice they will work as a rough-and-ready graduate tax, so that expensive university education is paid for afterwards.
The quest for knowledge is good in itself and helps the country thrive
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This rough-and-ready reasoning is upside-down to the slow, thorough, in-control approach most industrial designers bring to complex machinery.
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I foolishly left the information brochures for SF Canada on my desk at home and had to fettle up something rough-and-ready on my netbook.
Montreal WorldCon Day 1