roughness

[ UK /ɹˈʌfnəs/ ]
[ US /ˈɹəfnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather
  2. harsh or severe speech or behavior
    the roughness of her voice was a signal to keep quiet
    men associate the roughness of nonstandard working-class speech with masculinity
  3. the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion
  4. the quality of being harsh or rough or grating to the senses
  5. rowdy behavior
  6. an unpolished unrefined quality
    the crudeness of frontier dwellings depressed her
  7. a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven

How To Use roughness In A Sentence

  • For he took a genuine interest in his pupils; and, in that first year of his teaching, carried his class to surprising lengths, nor let them betray any evidences of unthoroughness when they went trembling up to the examinations provided by the great Anton himself, in the mid-year term. The Genius
  • In external beauty, in paper, type, presswork, and binding, and all that belongs to solid and elegant book-making, the volume is a fine specimen of German skill, good taste, and thoroughness. The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 2, No. 10, March 10, 1898 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
  • He approaches the subject with thoroughness and a distinct effort to reduce its apparent complexity to simpler, actionable concepts.
  • I have to imagine false start and unnecessary roughness penalties would come into play. chappy Says: Matthew Yglesias » The Unpredictability of Quarterbacks
  • The British inland waterway system, flourishing in the early nineteenth century, was staffed by a large body of bargees who, like the railway navvies, earned an unenviable reputation for roughness.
  • There is no doubt that Hammarskj6ld's northern sense of propriety was deeply shaken by the roughness of the outburst, and ironically, since the Russian code of what is socially permissible comes largely across the Baltic from Sweden, it was precisely this rowdy behavior of Khrushchev's, dubbed Ne-Kulturny (uncultured), which eventually proved his undoing at home. An Autobiography
  • Among 25 cases of tuberculosis of internal genital, the roughness of cervical margin was most commonly seen, stenosis of cervix uteri came second.
  • He is dominated by the forces of anxiety, paranoia, and anger, which manifest in a roughness and impatience toward his beautiful neighbor.
  • Such exercises encourage thoroughness, both in interrogating the data at hand and in providing an account of how an analysis was developed.
  • I envy her recklessness, the roughness of her unpracticed pirouettes, the occasional clumsy misstep that inspires no apologies.
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