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roughish

[ UK /ɹˈʌfɪʃ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. somewhat rough

How To Use roughish In A Sentence

  • Warts are small, skin-coloured, roughish lumps on the skin.
  • Gone was the slightly long wavy blond hair framing the roughish good looks.
  • The radical leaves are lyrate and roughish when young; those of the stem clasping, or heart-shaped, at base, and of an oblong form, -- all somewhat fleshy, of a dark-green color, with a glaucous bloom. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
  • I gave the people who were listening and watching a roughish wink.
  • At the large Chinese village of Rassa, a clever little Sumatra pony met us; and after passing through some roughish clearings, on which tapioca is being planted, we arrived here at 4 P.M., having traveled sixty miles in thirty-three hours. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
  • The whitish and smoothish sleepers are fairly new, while the darkish and roughish sleepers may be 10 years old. Wooden sleepers are not used where there are termites.
  • An unexpected find on a previous expedition was a trawler that had disappeared in roughish weather in 1974 with all seven crew.
  • In those pre-Watergate years, a certain air of roughish disrepute still clung to journalists as a species.
  • Two other beautiful species found hereabouts are the aster azureus, which blooms from August until after frost, with a slender but stiff and roughish stem, and many bright violet-blue flowers with short rays; and the aster Shortii, or Short's aster, which is found on banks and along the edges of woods and does not usually bloom until Some Summer Days in Iowa
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