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Definition of rough in English: roughadjective rʌfrəf 1Having an uneven or irregular surface; not smooth or level. they had to carry the victim across the rough, stony ground her skin felt dry and rough Example sentencesExamples - He ran a hand over the rough surface, walking around it.
- The wooden floors were rough (not having ever been sanded), often giving the boy splinters.
- The smooth slate floor of the bottom level reflects the rough basalt on the pathway through a preserved grove of evergreens.
- I could feel the movement, the change in the vibrations as iron-bound wheels went from a rough surface to a smoother one and then back to the former.
- The surface was rough behind my back, like sharp-edged pumice.
- Mold spores adhere more tightly to the rough surfaces than to the smooth skin of undamaged kernels.
- Furniture replaced itself, but rough cloth became silk and plain wood shiny mahogany.
- To the boy it sounded like a bag of dirty clothes was being dragged across a rough area of cement.
- The next day I placed the figure upright on a piece of 400 grit sandpaper and smoothed out the rough surface of the putty.
- His forehead is pressed against the rough, gritty plaster of the wall, sharp against his nose.
- The rough concrete and uneven brick of the existing envelope contrast with smooth dividers displaying works of art.
- I leaned out as far as I could, looking down at the rough, sharp rocks on the beach below me.
- Abbey gulped as she felt her wrists get tied together with rough rope.
- I took his mantle and spread it on the rough wood surface, and with some difficulty he stretched out upon it, face down.
- Scientists at the European Space Agency think the lighter areas indicate a rough surface, and the dark areas are smooth.
- I reached over and touched the five o'clock shadow that was already forming on his face, and felt the rough surface against his chin.
- The ornate rugs on the rough, wooden floor seemed to be nothing but pieces of carpet, dirt scuffing away the designs of its former glamour.
- She felt her back hit the rough surface of a tree.
- I reached around in the darkness, fingers flinching from the prickliness of fibreglass insulation and splinters in the attic's rough, wooden beams.
- Gold leaf is too delicate to be laid directly on the relatively rough surface of plaster and so the gold leaf is backed with thicker and more robust tin foil using an oil mordant as the adhesive.
Synonyms uneven, irregular, bumpy, stony, rocky, broken, rugged, jaggy, craggy rutted, pitted, rutty coarse, bristly, scratchy, prickly shaggy, hairy, hirsute, bushy, fuzzy gnarled, knotty, lumpy, knobbly, nodular rare nodulous, nodose dry, leathery, weather-beaten chapped, chafed, calloused, scaly, scabrous technical furfuraceous - 1.1 Denoting the face of a tennis or squash racket on which the loops formed from the stringing process project (used as a call when the racket is spun to decide the right to serve first or to choose ends).
2(of a person or their behaviour) not gentle; violent or boisterous. pushchairs should be capable of withstanding rough treatment Example sentencesExamples - A group of rough looking men sat around a fire, drinking and laughing heartily.
- The hand that was so gentle with love before was now harsh and rough with lust.
- ‘Yes, he owns the saloon and has a rough crowd hanging around all the time,’ she explained.
- Janet never abused Jamie, but she could be rough when she was drunk.
- Of course, she wasn't stupid - the rough engineer had worn protective gauntlets to shield her hands from the impact of the armor.
- Alex's first attempt to save his friend from the rough sex maniac went sour, but he's determined to try again regardless of the consequences.
- Who knew that such a rough man could feel so right?
- I have to admit it excited me the way he was rough and aggressive.
- Mr. Woodhouse will be happy to have the boys temporarily under his care, because he thinks their father and uncle are too rough with them.
- It was a busy day and the rough customers were more than a little rowdy that evening.
- As the Tavern continued to party, a table full of rough looking men stopped their discussion and looked up to where the fat cleric had his back to them.
- He was harsh and demanding, rough and wild and erotic.
- Shannon's left eyebrow rose in speculation as Rogers fidgeted with the twin coffee mugs in his rough iron grip.
- Unlike the kisses we shared in the past, this kiss was rough, hard, and I could smell and taste the alcohol on his breath.
- They all had a nice chuckle when she informed them that she had a bit of experience playing football, but was kicked out of the league because she was too rough for most of the boys.
- He was rough, but not to the point where it actually hurt.
- They're rough, dirty, and all about sweat and grime.
- The trouble is that they are not rough or ‘warehousey’ enough.
- He was a rough man, but out of his venality and his bestial nature erupted this divine expression on the canvas.
- At our old house in Chicago I had hung out with a rough crowd.
Synonyms violent, brutal, vicious aggressive, belligerent, pugnacious, thuggish boisterous, rowdy, disorderly, unruly, unrestrained, wild, riotous, undisciplined, unmanageable informal ugly Scottish informal radge careless, clumsy, inept, unskilful boorish, loutish, oafish, brutish, coarse, crude, uncouth, rough-hewn, roughcast, vulgar, unrefined, unladylike, ungentlemanly, uncultured, ill-bred, ill-mannered, unmannerly, impolite, churlish, discourteous, uncivil, ungracious, rude, brusque, blunt, curt - 2.1 (of an area or occasion) characterized by violent behaviour.
the workmen hate going to the rough estates Example sentencesExamples - Our house was situated in a rough section of town that was now undergoing the early stages of gentrification.
- Kim thought for a moment and then remembered what Rosie had said about wanting her baby to grow up in a loving family and not on some rough London estate.
- Living in a relatively rough part of town, I wasn't allowed out an awful lot.
- It is a very rough place and rarely does anyone from this area go there.
- Gonzalez, a Stanford University graduate, grew up in a rough part of the Bay Area.
- The area they moved to was rough, and Troy was soon caught up in a bad crowd.
- Although not a particularly rough town it had its unruly inhabitants, as did all dock towns.
- He spent many of his summer days in back-alley taverns that were too rough for the usual city folk to drink in.
- 2.2 (of weather or the sea) wild and stormy.
the lifeboat crew braved rough seas to rescue a couple Example sentencesExamples - I chose to disregard it - I figured we had just hit rough seas.
- There were rough seas in the area at that time, the coast guard said, adding they dispatched patrol boats and planes Tuesday to search for the ship.
- We heard that the sea was rough over the Channel and did not expect you until the end of the week.
- Jeremiah stopped his wagon outside a hotel and stepped down, his legs wobbly and sore, as if he'd been in rough seas.
- It was drawing close to winter, so the ocean was rough.
- How strong those gales turn out to be will determine whether the economy faces clear sailing or rough seas.
- There seemed to be waves buffeting me, one after another, like bathing in a rough sea.
- On this day there were tiny little rippling waves breaking on the sandy beach, but Rita told me that on occasion it could become very rough.
- ‘This does not bode well with me,’ James said as he held his rifle as though it were a life preserver in rough seas.
- What a fragile vessel to sail into the rough seas that lay ahead!
- I was pushing him slowly over the edge that went off into a rough sea of destruction.
- The amazons at the oars negotiated the rough sea with the utmost of care, proving their fine skill as seafarers.
- The pass is granted for next weekend, and Nurse Ratched takes out a newsclipping about how rough and dangerous the sea is this year.
- I do not think the man will come today; the seas are rough, and the horizon shows more storms to come.
- The first was that, though the sea was indeed rough, there was little rain, and the air lacked the clammy humidity of a thunderstorm.
- I finally spotted her alone, outside on the veranda, looking at the rough ocean.
- He hugged her again, and she clung to him as if he was a raft in a rough sea.
- The beach was rough that day; the waves were great if you were a surfer.
- The sea was rough, but the setting sun had broken from the clouds and everything was vibrant in the sudden light.
- The winds, storms, and currents combine to whip up huge seas, driving rough waves on top of massive swells.
Synonyms turbulent, stormy, storm-tossed, tempestuous, violent, heavy, heaving, raging, choppy, agitated informal rolly stormy, wild, tempestuous, squally, wet, rainy, windy, blustery foul, filthy, nasty, inclement, unpleasant, disagreeable
3Not finished tidily or decoratively; plain and basic. the customers sat at rough wooden tables Example sentencesExamples - The house didn't look as rough when the trio finished their work, and they were immensely proud.
- The walls, as in the rest of the house, are finished in traditional rough plaster that complements the timber doors and architraves.
- It seemed a little odd to his mind, this mixture of rough furnishings and the truly fine finish of the structure itself.
- A rough, wooden, two-stick candelabrum graced one table, while the other sported a heavy glass oil lamp.
- Aunt Marion and Mrs. Nichols were both in the kitchen, sitting together at the rough and ancient table.
- If you think the finish is somewhat rough, you are right, but there is a good reason for this.
- In the corner there was a rough looking table made of cheap wood with many knot holes, with a corresponding short stool the Duke was seated on.
- Brick stringcourses decorated rough stucco walls, while semicircular lunettes arched over the main floor windows.
- She had spotted him sitting in one corner, dark except for the candle on the table, which was dripping hot wax onto the rough, wooden table.
- An inventory of the National Gallery's furniture in 1856 lists only seven and a half dozen oak chairs and one rough deal table.
- The animation is rough and basic, crafted well but never flashy or spectacular.
Synonyms plain, basic, simple, rough and ready, rustic, rude, crude, primitive, spartan, uncomfortable - 3.1 Put together as a temporary measure; makeshift.
he had one arm in a rough sling Example sentencesExamples - The finished products were rough looking, but they held together.
- Throw together a rough prototype to bounce off users.
- Drake grabbed a handful of his hair and twisted cruelly just as he finished tying off the rough bandage.
- He was standing frozen in the doorway, a rough sack of belongings slung over his shoulder.
Synonyms primitive, simple, basic, rudimentary, rough and ready, rough-hewn, make-do, makeshift, improvised, cobbled together, thrown together, homespun, unfinished, unpolished, unformed, undeveloped - 3.2 Lacking sophistication or refinement.
she took care of him in her rough, kindly way Example sentencesExamples - Yet delicacy is not defeated, and this ambiguity in Jansons's paint handling - is it rough or is it refined?
- Ultimately this scheme has to do with the architects' pleasure in materials and light, and in juxtaposition of the rough and refined.
- They spoke together in their own rough language for a while before Rastif brought Sanchen over to them.
Synonyms boorish, loutish, oafish, brutish, coarse, crude, uncouth, rough-hewn, roughcast, vulgar, unrefined, unladylike, ungentlemanly, uncultured, ill-bred, ill-mannered, unmannerly, impolite, churlish, discourteous, uncivil, ungracious, rude, brusque, blunt, curt - 3.3 Not fully worked out or including every detail.
he had a rough draft of his new novel Example sentencesExamples - Each story comes off as a rough draft in need of polish.
- Then, especially after I finally read the rough draft of the paper, I realized that was a pretty silly idea.
- When I am drawing, I use pencils for rough drafts and pens for final copies since it makes my drawings look more professional.
- Woodward's book is just the first, very rough draft of that key time in America's history.
- So, using the dividend yields seen during the 1998 crisis, rough target prices can be produced.
- While no fully unified vision emerged, the basic parameters of a rough consensus were forged during these years.
- I performed a very rough draft to an invited Parliamentary audience.
- Conversely, the ‘performer’ will be able to generate a rough Labanotation score that can be refined by a notator.
- The book reads like a rough draft, not a polished book.
- Whoever drew them must have seen the two before, for the pictures were quite detailed, even for a rough sketch.
- Now that I was getting somewhere, I took out another piece of paper to write my rough draft on.
- I'm writing something real interesting, maybe I'll lend you the rough draft.
- He only did a rough draft, but he said he'd draw in all the fine details tomorrow.
- Some manuscripts include rough and final drafts, and galley and page proofs.
- As a working artist, when I look back on my early work I look at a rough draft of myself.
- Even though details are still rough, it's good to know that it placed so much thought into this masterpiece.
- This is a rough draft of a story and therefore the continuity is messed up.
- I wrote various rough drafts, too many of them sarcastic.
- Firstly, the system is being developed online from 6 years of rough draft notes.
- We started writing together when I approached her with an idea and a rough draft of a vampire script.
Synonyms preliminary, hasty, quick, sketchy, cursory, basic, crude, rudimentary, rough and ready, raw, unpolished, unrefined - 3.4 (of stationery) used for making preliminary notes.
4(of a voice) harsh and rasping. his voice was rough with barely suppressed fury Example sentencesExamples - His rough voice suddenly seemed more attractive than threatening.
- When he spoke, his voice was rough and husky, barely above a whisper.
- Gavin's eyes had turned so dark a grey that they were nearly black, and his voice was rough with suppressed frustration and anger.
- ‘I suppose if we're to be living together I should know who you are,’ he said in his rough voice.
- The ‘leader’ asked in a rough voice that seemed more like a growl.
- A rough voice snagged her attention as they stopped before the gate.
- Considering his height, then the steely look and his rough voice, both of which reminded me a lot of Carey, he was a rather intimidating person, even to me.
- The voice was rough, but soothing, and she began to feel safer.
- His voice was unusually rough and that was all he said.
- Unable to even squint at the harsh light, her voice was rough and dry.
- The soldier's voice was rough as he spoke to the innkeeper.
- Jeffrey's voice was rough and his words were harsh but Anthony remained calm and cool, save his eyes.
- ‘Majesty, we bring you a gift for the Prince,’ the man said in a rough voice.
- Her voice was rough even though her words were velvet; it was as if her vocal cords had been run against stones over the years and no longer able to speak gently.
- Whispers followed that yell until a rough voice came out of nowhere.
- After a short pause, he heard the door open, followed by his uncle's rough voice before the latter finally appeared in his line of vision.
- Her rough voice sounded almost hysterical as she dropped to her knees next to him, turning his lifeless body over and checking for a pulse.
- Devon's voice was rough from coughing, but he spoke up.
- She stayed up in the tree until a rough voice called out.
- She suddenly heard a rough voice yell to her from the shadows.
Synonyms gruff, hoarse, harsh, rasping, raspy, husky, throaty, gravelly, guttural raucous, discordant, cacophonous, grating, jarring, strident, harsh, dissonant, unmusical, inharmonious, unmelodious - 4.1 (of wine or another alcoholic drink) sharp or harsh in taste.
he refilled the mug with rough cider Example sentencesExamples - It is a lusty, even rough blend of Grenache, Syrah and Carignan.
- A fine wine match here is this rustic, slightly rough and spicy 100 per cent organic red, with enough heat and heft to manage the lamb.
- The rough red Italian vino was on the table for every meal and we drank it instead of water, not being too certain of the purity of the ship's drinking water.
- Good weight of fruit and a vaguely rough tannins lead to an unsurprising warm alcoholic finish.
- After eight hours, we had gone solo and had splendid dog fights over the moors, huge fun, especially after two pints of rough cider!
Synonyms sharp-tasting, sharp, sour, acidic, acid, vinegary rare acidulous
5Not exact or precise; approximate. they had a rough idea of when the murder took place it'll cost about £50, at a rough guess Example sentencesExamples - We may perceive effects as real but they are in no way approaching even a rough approximation of reality and probably never will.
- Based on a rough approximation of the time, probably he'd be eating - bran cereal and fresh juice, the same every morning.
- I'm not quite sure where I'm going with this story, but I have a rough idea.
- At a rough guess, that would give use room for around 800 songs, which is still plenty.
- I have a rough idea who, but I want to keep it a secret until I'm positive of the facts and evidence.
- And more than a third of people said they either had no idea or only a rough idea how much interest they were paying on their debt.
- Having got a rough idea of how the coinage worked, we need to work out how much that was worth in modern terms.
- There is no exact figure of how many people actually lived on the Hundred of Farnham, but we can have a rough idea of how many died.
- Gerry threw the fifth empty can into the rough direction of the garbage can.
- A rough measure of self-citation may be found in the links to other, affiliated sites.
- This ratio is a rough measure of the operating leverage a company can achieve in the conduct of the operational part of its business.
- In a rough approximation, it works the same way as lint, and lint's users will need very little time to understand how to use it.
- Here you get a very rough idea what the inside is going to look like.
- It is true that such rough measures of valuation are notoriously unreliable market timing tools, but they can be an indication of stock market risk.
- When I had first started the story, I had a rough idea of where to go, but I guessed the story didn't turn out the way I had expected.
- I normally have a rough idea as to how much money I need to pay out each month.
- A task, in common usability lingo, is a rough measure for a user activity.
- Using a set of digital scales, I made a very rough measure and found that it required about 6.5kg of force to compress the spring.
- I have a rough idea what kind of sight awaits beyond that door, but that still doesn't make me any keener to go out there.
- The number of patents can thus only be used as a rough measure of the innovative capacity of a country.
Synonyms approximate, inexact, estimated, imprecise, coarse-grained, vague, general, hazy North American informal ballpark 6informal Difficult and unpleasant or unfair. the teachers gave me a rough time because my image didn't fit the first day of a job is rough on everyone Example sentencesExamples - Gideon and I had a rough start and it included many strange occurrences but we are happy and that is all that matters.
- Such a sharp change in input markets is bound to lead to a rough transition as producers try to adapt technology to the new price environment.
- Once they decided where to start, the going was rough.
- If we rely on such counsel, if enhancing the national welfare depends on such, we are in for a rough time.
- From a rough start, he has proven adroit at managing these public moments.
- He had a rough time with the bills piling up, the electricity and water going off sometimes when he least expected it.
- Maybe we'd had a rough start, but it didn't turn out half bad.
- All right, I understand that you've had a rough time, but there is no way you're finding out my past on these conditions.
- How many more people who he had never heard of before (and that happened to get off at rough starts) were they going to pick up?
- Accompanying partners can have a rough time of it too.
- She was having a rough time explaining to Scott that she was involved with someone, and that he needed to back off.
- Cost overruns from the 1995 expansion made for a rough start in 1996.
- He had a rough time of it, but it was he who informed me of your capture.
- From the rough start at the beginning of the day, everything deteriorated.
- If this was the explanation, then they could be in for a rough time.
- It's true, we may have given him a rough time last night, but I assure you, it's what any normal person would've done.
- She looked like she'd had a rough time, and there was a three-foot-thick solid wall a mile high around her heart.
- Moreover, it was clear that a shy, sensitive boy like me was not fit to encounter the rough experience of a public school.
- Admittedly they got off to a rough start, but she was a very casual person.
- She was going to have a rough time with Wilson in the jungle for a year.
Synonyms difficult, hard, tough, bad, unpleasant, demanding, arduous - 6.1 Unwell.
the altitude had hit her and she was feeling rough Synonyms ill, unwell, poorly, bad, out of sorts, indisposed, not oneself, sick, queasy, nauseous, nauseated, peaky, liverish, green about the gills, run down, washed out, faint, dizzy, giddy, light-headed British off, off colour informal under the weather, below par, not up to par, funny, peculiar, lousy, rotten, awful, terrible, dreadful, crummy British informal grotty, ropy Scottish informal wabbit, peely-wally Australian/New Zealand informal crook vulgar slang crappy dated seedy rare peaked, peakish
adverb rʌfrəf informal In a manner that lacks gentleness; harshly or violently. treat 'em rough but treat 'em fair
noun rʌfrəf 1British A disreputable and violent person. the rear of the column was attacked by roughs Example sentencesExamples - Exhausted, the roughs finally shaken off, at 1 a.m. the sweat-soaked, frightened, and bedraggled dandy hammered at the door of his last-hope refuge.
- Two teams of roughs, clothed in only their union-suits, attempt to wrest the boar-skin from each other's possession.
Synonyms ruffian, thug, lout, hooligan, hoodlum, rowdy, bully boy, brawler Australian larrikin informal tough, roughneck, bruiser, gorilla, yahoo British informal yob, yobbo, bovver boy, lager lout, chav Scottish informal radge Scottish & Northern English informal keelie, ned Australian/New Zealand informal roughie, lout 2mass noun (on a golf course) longer grass around the fairway and the green. his second shot lay in the rough Example sentencesExamples - The 425-yard par four is a dog-leg right, with trees lining the left side and heavy rough and a fairway bunker on the right.
- Paul Crowe, the club's golf manager, describes it to me as ‘primal - a battle with the elements and natural roughs.’
3A preliminary sketch. I did a rough to work out the scale of the lettering Example sentencesExamples - Since most do not want to believe me, at a couple of random points during the semester, I will take one of the student's pinned-up roughs and wax poetic about various points and rationales.
- Some artists are willing and able to create roughs or prototypes to illustrate to a licensee just how well their work would suit products.
- Then I went into the mixing studio for six weeks and worked from 7.00 am to 8: 30 am doing the drawings and colour roughs.
- I have roughs for about four or five more, including Oliver Twist and a couple of others I should be able to get to.
- Behind the jar, a sketch pad is peopled with figurative roughs, historical drafts - the preliminaries of art and history, of cultural recognition.
- They want something new every time, and heaven forbid you actually made a ‘good design’ on the first set of roughs.
Synonyms preliminary sketch, draft, outline, mock-up, model, artist's impression 4An uncut precious stone. miners discovered one of the biggest diamond roughs in history Example sentencesExamples - Over the course of six decades, Frank Sinatra managed to be both the diamond and the rough.
verb rʌfrəf [with object]1Work or shape (something) in a rough, preliminary fashion. flat surfaces of wood are roughed down Example sentencesExamples - The closet bend and toilet floor flange must be roughed in first.
- Few anchorages were available in this vast maze of coastline, with its network of inlets whose beds had been roughed in with decisive strokes of Nature's creative tools.
- Using that comp, the artist roughs out a model in Maya.
- 1.1rough something out Produce a preliminary and unfinished version of something.
the engineer roughed out a diagram on his notepad Example sentencesExamples - Woke this morning with the grim realization that I had not polished the column - in fact, I'd just roughed it out, sketched out the basic ideas.
- There is however one last snaggette to the system we've just been roughing out.
- One day in March I was roughing out a scene in the script in which the off-screen voice of my aunt was introducing the action in the laundry room of a typical Argentine house.
- In the beginning, we would sit together at a computer in New York or Chicago and rough things out, which was a lot of fun but extremely unproductive.
- Working with the comp and some basic reference colors, the understructure of the ship is roughed out.
- Once Thompson had roughed out a design that divided the 3,300 square feet into four distinct areas, Lennon took a look and had him open up the design to allow for more square footage in the A room.
Synonyms draft, sketch out, outline, block out, mock up suggest, delineate, give a brief idea of formal adumbrate
2Make uneven. rough up the icing with a palette knife Example sentencesExamples - Peter smiled and roughed his hair like he was just a kid.
- The middle of the album is largely filled with the former, leaving the latter to rough up the record's edges.
- The ice is roughed up pretty badly, which slows things down and keeps me from busting my tail.
- Grosvenor used a chain saw to rough up the top face of the work, which is at a tall viewer's eye level.
- It was flat at the sides, where it was cut quite short, and the top was longer, his fringe was roughed up, the kind of style that makes you want to run your fingers through it!
3rough itinformal Live in discomfort with only basic necessities. she'd had to rough it alone in digs Example sentencesExamples - If he had the choice of sleeping in a warm bed or roughing it, he'd obviously choose the first.
- Of course, with him, roughing it doesn't actually mean roughing it.
- There was nothing like roughing it, though maybe last night had gotten a little too rough.
- She also found that while she was supposed to be attending equestrian lessons, she was ditching them more and more often in favor of simply saddling her horse western style and roughing it on the trails.
- It's all very well roughing it in your twenties, but it tends to lose its novelty after a while.
- She just wasn't used to roughing it so much and it didn't help that Trom and Vicki started arguing with one another again.
- It can scarcely be said that Byron and his staff were roughing it at Metaxata.
- Theoretically, if the tent has stayed up, then we could have roughed it in it.
- So Tony once roughed it on a London park bench, having travelled there to try and become a rock star.
- Is there even a restaurant here or are we roughing it on the beach?
- She thinks that roughing it is going without a nail file.
- ‘I'm all for sleeping in these clothes and roughing it tonight,’ she muttered.
- He has certainly roughed it and it would be very unfair if someone else comes in and is appointed coach.
- How many other commercially successful directors, at 40-plus, would head off to the Afghan border to rough it with a DV camera?
- Tell me you'd rather be out here roughing it, then at home and cozy.
- Man cannot live by roughing it alone, which is why the first part of my journey is spent in the five-star opulence of the Tanjung Aru Resort in the state capital, Kota Kinabulu.
- Little Nicky may be an exact copy of his DNA-donor, but Gordie was a stray for a couple of years and roughed it.
- She can picture herself roughing it with a backpack and Eurail pass - as long as there is a massage and room service at end of the trek.
- Besides, it doesn't take much to taste good when you are roughing it.
- With all their food provided by others, their idea of roughing it is to park a Winnebago in a campsite and worry that they won't be able to use their satellite dish when the extension cord doesn't reach the outlet.
Phrases informal A male sexual partner whose toughness or lack of sophistication is a source of attraction. the actor is fast becoming everyone favourite bit of rough Example sentencesExamples - But Bourne creates a parallel story in which the hero's neglected fiancée, Glenda, is picked up by a check-shirted, trumpet-playing bit of rough.
- ‘They've cottoned on to me as a bit of northern erotica,’ he has jokingly said of the women that turn up to his readings, ‘a bit of rough.’
- The heroine of Martinu's Mirandolina seduces a self-confessed misogynist, only to reconfirm his prejudices when she dumps him for a bit of rough.
- So, whilst many gay men like a bit of rough there are obviously many who like a bit of posh.
- Beers not cocktails are the order of the day but you might pick up a nice bit of rough on the way out.
- And she switches expertly from the upper crust wife yearning for a bit of rough to the cold company strategist.
- I always knew I'm just a bit of rough while you rebound from the divorce.
- This reading implies that the tragedy could have been averted if only Beatrice had recognised her longing for a bit of rough, and had not pretended to fancy the aristocratic squares a woman of her class was expected to marry.
- So what, she's his little bit of rough on the side?
- If anyone ever needs proof that he is more than a meat-fisted warrior and rather attractive bit of rough, they should watch this film.
1Without decoration or other treatment; in a natural state. Example sentencesExamples - But she wants to stay in the rough so I should just leave her that way.
- Lead may be worked directly, by being hammered or beaten into shape, or indirectly, melted and cast as with bronze, or it may be cast in the rough and then finished by hammering.
- Despite those small complaints, I feel this film was an overlooked gem in the rough during its theatrical run, and would make a fine rental or purchase now that it is out on DVD, especially for those readers with children.
- And so begins a tale of romance between the lowest of the low and a rich politician who must learn to love this diamond in the rough as she truly is.
- Well, they were kind of picked over, but I found some diamonds in the rough.
- Port Royal is a gem in the rough, a fact that the English Royals are quite aware of.
- Those who made the effort to find the show discovered a true diamond in the rough - a show that captured everything good about improvisational comedy in a pseudo-sitcom format.
- In the presence of greatness, especially in the rough, where honor is often due the sage who stands outside the affairs of the world, every word or action can be persuasive.
- No let us not discuss me darling, you are topic of everyone in town, and deserve it completely, for you are the brightest sun and the diamond in the rough of all the unpolished rocks that are the other jewels.
- Despite how content some of us may be with Linux in the rough, nontechnical users don't always appreciate the struggle.
even before the recession hit, the project was in the rough Example sentencesExamples - The road of his thought was labyrinthine and sometimes ended in the rough of Vietnam or Richard Nixon.
- A group of 10 partners bought the course as a real estate investment in 1988, just in time for the regional real estate market to land in the rough.
a rough-and-ready estimating method Example sentencesExamples - The sporting code, which had been rough and ready for most of the nineteenth century, especially in Africa, began to impose more self-restraint on hunters.
- It's rough and ready and it's simple lack of visual elegance makes it so much more enjoyable.
- So it's still a little rough and ready, although it clearly is maturing, I think.
- The result is ragged, rough and ready, very fresh and completely invigorating.
- Churning out three and four-deckers at his factory rate of production (and he did much else than write novels) meant that Scott was occasionally obliged to be rough and ready in the finer points of construction.
- Obviously these figures are rough and ready, but they evidence a point.
- It's very rough and ready, and a bit ragged round the edges, but it does work, and I've made very sure to point out to anyone looking that it's not the real odeon website.
- ‘The recording session was a little rough and ready - the song was literally made in a room in someone's house,’ Tom laughs.
- It is pretty rough and ready but it is asking the right questions.
- He's recorded live, too, which leaves some of Jamie's piano solos sounding rough and ready, but gives the performances the power of a live show.
Synonyms basic, simple, crude, unrefined, unpolished, unsophisticated makeshift, make-do, thrown together, cobbled together, provisional, stopgap, improvised, extemporary hurried, sketchy Latin ad hoc - 1.1(of a person or place) unsophisticated or unrefined.
the Hague, a town so bourgeois it makes Amsterdam seem rough and ready Example sentencesExamples - ‘If it was all too perfect it wouldn't have had that kind of rough and ready atmosphere to it that gives it its magic,’ explains Evelyn.
- But this is almost as much Bogart's film, and he was wonderful playing against type as a businessman instead of the rough and ready tough guys he was known for.
- His characters - the men, at least - are rough and ready, and thrown down on the page with tons of energy.
- Sara and Victoria were both nice enough, Danielle was a little rough and ready but I thought her heart was in the right place, and Amy had always seemed perfectly friendly and personable.
- He seemed the rough and ready type despite his skinny frame.
- He certainly secured advantageous marriages for his children and, despite a sometimes rough and ready personal manner, he attracted numerous clients.
- One of these men is the rough and ready Sam Hell (Piper).
- Many people who went past looked rough and ready so Arthur didn't approach them.
- In either case, you may be as rough and ready with my master as you find needful; it will be he who has frightened her, and not you.
- The Old Town, in its heyday, was apparently a teeming place, rough and ready and full of humanity with all its flaws, vices and passion.
Synonyms basic, simple, crude, unrefined, unpolished, unsophisticated
Having a few imperfections. the text looks pretty rough around the edges Example sentencesExamples - However, they're still a bit rough around the edges - sound quality would make an enormous difference.
- ‘When we talked about what our goals were, all three of us said we really wanted to communicate a message, even if it's kind of rough around the edges - we all just really wanted to get it out,’ she says.
- In a way, the image quality matches the film - it's gritty and a bit rough around the edges, but it always delivers where it counts.
- The stealth aspect of the game is also a little rough around the edges since sneaking past guards or security cameras is based almost entirely on trial and error.
- This one is rough around the edges; however, its heart is luminous.
- This debut effort shows lots of promise, but is still rough around the edges.
- This is a dark film, a bit rough around the edges, but its willingness to examine the connections between violence and ambition in the male world of the story makes it a bracing and memorable experience.
- The documentary is a bit grainy and rough around the edges, but where else are you going to learn about this unheralded piece of animation history?
- It's not as smooth as I'd like it to be - I haven't really written fiction for a while, and my last effort wasn't very good, so things are a bit rough around the edges.
- The camerawork is enthusiastic and the editing has some nice touches - cutting on beats and using splitscreen effects - but it's rough around the edges and would have benefited from a more seasoned hand to give a little more direction.
informal Lacking refinement; coarse. Example sentencesExamples - They all knew that he was rough as bags on parade with no inkling of a word of command.
the rough edge (or side) of someone's tongue you two stop quarrelling or you'll get the rough edge of my tongue Example sentencesExamples - After an unusual lashing with the rough side of his tongue, Ian ordered Grant to post sentries every few yards along the crest of the hill.
- The King pronounced himself delighted to be among ‘grave, learned and reverend men’, though he gave both bishops and Puritans the rough edge of his tongue as discussions proceeded over three days.
- Even the poor old Pope gets the rough edge of his tongue - for showing him ‘a total lack of respect’ when they met.
despite the clever programming, there are still a few rough edges to the system Example sentencesExamples - Radio can be good fun and tends to knock off the rough edges so that you can develop as a smoother performer, ready for your big break in front of the camera.
- You've got to take the rough edges off if it's going to succeed.
- But for others it takes off the rough edges, it takes out all the excitement of a work by trying to make it more acceptable to an audience.
- And even if the play has the faintly over-workshopped quality you often find in American drama, in which all the rough edges are planed down, it still exerts a fiercely intelligent grip.
- But, especially as the orchestra develops, and finds itself playing on other than home territory, some of those rough edges will need to be smoothed and polished.
- We live in a sanitized world, where spin and public image disinfects and sanitises any rough edges to our entertainment.
- Attempts to open the play up by occasionally taking it outside are not very effective, but despite the film's rough edges, the issues that are brought up are fascinating.
- Of course there were some rough edges, sagging phrases, and intonation problems, but these were soon forgotten when swept up into an interpretation of passion and character.
- While this board clearly has some rough edges, they all seem fairly minor and generally fixable.
- But tempting as it is to smooth over the rough edges, a richer self-portrait of the artist emerges when you consider the inconsistencies within and between each film.
Treatment that is not scrupulously fair or in accordance with the law. Example sentencesExamples - But if that's what happened in these cases, it's at least rough justice.
- These days it seems you don't have to look very far to find someone handing out pitchforks and torches and organizing a mob to administer rough justice on some bar.
- Yet comparing price-sales ratios offers a couple of advantages: First, it exacts a kind of rough justice, just the sort the market has been meting out lately.
- But there seems a kind of rough justice in his being forced to arbitrate between Satan and God in a diabolical chat show and, for all its shock and schlock tactics, the show implies that TV has a moral responsibility.
- But in the meantime, it's hard to feel too bothered when the Internet community's long-established tradition of dispensing its own rough justice means that the world has one less spam king.
- The problem with such a proactive system of justice is that it is prone to rough justice.
- It is rough justice, but with a sound foundation.
- It's rough justice, but justice all the same, from a certain point of view.
- The overall American legal framework was reinterpreted and adapted to fit the exigent circumstances, and rough justice was often the result.
- Such rough justice is popular, but it is hardly an ideal atmosphere in which to persuade people to in effect sign up voluntarily for the sex offenders’ register.
1A journey over rough sea. - 1.1A difficult time or experience.
the rough passage faced by the legislation Example sentencesExamples - I told her that it might be a rough passage, but I believed that she had a good chance of being able to walk again.
- Ultimately, Geldof discovered more about America and himself than America learned about him during the rough passage that climaxed at the Palladium in New York.
- Whatever way you look at it, a rough passage would be a fair appraisal for his sojourn at the top so far.
- It's had a rough passage at times, particularly post-9 / 11.
- The Stones had a rough passage through the Flower Power era, but came out the other side harder, flasher - with their eyes re-opened.
they wouldn't have stood for any rough stuff Example sentencesExamples - She keeps the rough stuff to a minimum, though the emotional abuse is continually evident, in a tale of two lovers caught up in their own personal tragedy.
- When there's too much rough stuff going on, captains will get lectures from the referee in front of the penalty box and coaches are as adamant as ever when things don't go the team's way.
- ‘I guess she doesn't get into much rough stuff,’ I offer.
- Usually, we give the recruits a week and a half before we start the rough stuff, but given the situation, we're resorting to shock tactics.
- Yet in a movie that dishes out its share of rough stuff, it's not the violence that gets to people - the pivotal scene in which a grown man cries has caused the biggest fuss.
Sleep in uncomfortable conditions, typically out of doors. he spent the night sleeping rough on the streets Example sentencesExamples - After being made redundant, she slept rough for a few nights in a derelict building and was unlucky enough to be caught in a heavy frost.
- In it, they describe the circumstances in which they became homeless and visit some of the places in the district in which they have slept rough, from a cemetery in Keighley to a derelict barn.
- On average three people a night sleep rough in Richmond.
- Meanwhile, between three and six hundred people sleep rough in Melbourne every night.
- As the temperature struggled to remain above zero, volunteers slept rough to raise awareness of the struggles facing the homeless on a day-to-day basis.
- It helps the vulnerable people in our society who find themselves homeless and having to sleep rough, along with those who are isolated or are trying to rebuild their lives.
- It shows that almost a third of young people put themselves at risk by staying with a stranger while away from home, two out of five young people slept rough, one in eight was physically hurt and one in nine was sexually assaulted.
- They all slept rough the previous night and many managed to blank out the morning sniffing glue.
- On the night of January 8 he was found a bed, but had to sleep rough outside the Home Office the following night.
- He cannot stay at grandmother's because of the condition of his licence and he is now sleeping rough.
take the rough with the smooth Accept the unpleasant aspects of life as well as the good. someone with his high profile in sport must take the rough with the smooth Example sentencesExamples - He never discounted the romantic element but at the same time looked for a completeness that can come by taking the rough with the smooth.
- But we have had some dubious decisions against us and you have to take the rough with the smooth.
- All too keen to be the centre of attention when announcing a waiting lists initiative or a patient-focused plan, he must learn to take the rough with the smooth and get stuck in where necessary.
- But he has learned to take the rough with the smooth.
- The rain did not help, but you have to take the rough with the smooth.
- In an interesting formulation, he says of himself: ‘You have to take the rough with the smooth without getting so thick-skinned that you no longer bleed.’
- After all, isn't reality about taking the rough with the smooth?
- ‘As I said politics is politics, and I can take the rough with the smooth, but if this if the way we are going to go in the future, then politics, those involved in it, and County Mayo will not benefit,’ he said.
- It was the physical game as predicted and both teams took the rough with the smooth.
- You can't come into politics and complain - you've got to take the rough with the smooth.
Phrasal Verbs he was roughed up in jail while awaiting trial Example sentencesExamples - There the recruits were forced to kneel against the wall, where they were roughed up and drenched with cold water.
- Bob thinks Decker is attempting to brainwash Sandra, so he roughs Decker up.
- She ran a hand through her hair and felt the cut where she had been roughed up by Derek.
- For the second start in a row, on Saturday night they made short work of the 39-year-old Yankee starter in their domicile, roughing him up for four runs and knocking him out after two innings.
- So, since the gangsters know they can get away with it they try to rough her up.
- The pizzas are knocked flying as the thugs nab Stan and start roughing him up.
- Fearing that the criminal would return and rough me up, I blew on my crime whistle to wake my neighbors for help.
- Failing to do this will result in Internet thugs coming to your house and roughing you up.
- And Darrow then turns on Mencken and roughs him up rhetorically.
- The evening in question, I'd been cornered by a trio of thugs, who took great delight in roughing me up.
Synonyms beat up, beat, attack, assault, knock about/around, maltreat, mistreat, abuse, batter, manhandle informal do over, bash up, work over, beat the living daylights out of British informal duff up North American informal beat up on
Derivatives adjective Gone was the slightly long wavy blond hair framing the roughish good looks. Example sentencesExamples - I gave the people who were listening and watching a roughish wink.
- In those pre-Watergate years, a certain air of roughish disrepute still clung to journalists as a species.
- An unexpected find on a previous expedition was a trawler that had disappeared in roughish weather in 1974 with all seven crew.
- Warts are small, skin-coloured, roughish lumps on the skin.
Origin Old English rūh, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch ruw and German rauh. Rhymes bluff, buff, chough, chuff, cuff, duff, enough, fluff, gruff, guff, huff, luff, puff, ruff, scruff, scuff, slough, snuff, stuff, Tough, tuff Definition of rough in US English: roughadjectiverəfrəf 1Having an uneven or irregular surface; not smooth or level. they had to carry the victim across the rough, stony ground her skin felt dry and rough Example sentencesExamples - Mold spores adhere more tightly to the rough surfaces than to the smooth skin of undamaged kernels.
- I leaned out as far as I could, looking down at the rough, sharp rocks on the beach below me.
- Scientists at the European Space Agency think the lighter areas indicate a rough surface, and the dark areas are smooth.
- I could feel the movement, the change in the vibrations as iron-bound wheels went from a rough surface to a smoother one and then back to the former.
- The ornate rugs on the rough, wooden floor seemed to be nothing but pieces of carpet, dirt scuffing away the designs of its former glamour.
- She felt her back hit the rough surface of a tree.
- The surface was rough behind my back, like sharp-edged pumice.
- The rough concrete and uneven brick of the existing envelope contrast with smooth dividers displaying works of art.
- Abbey gulped as she felt her wrists get tied together with rough rope.
- Gold leaf is too delicate to be laid directly on the relatively rough surface of plaster and so the gold leaf is backed with thicker and more robust tin foil using an oil mordant as the adhesive.
- He ran a hand over the rough surface, walking around it.
- The next day I placed the figure upright on a piece of 400 grit sandpaper and smoothed out the rough surface of the putty.
- To the boy it sounded like a bag of dirty clothes was being dragged across a rough area of cement.
- The wooden floors were rough (not having ever been sanded), often giving the boy splinters.
- Furniture replaced itself, but rough cloth became silk and plain wood shiny mahogany.
- I reached around in the darkness, fingers flinching from the prickliness of fibreglass insulation and splinters in the attic's rough, wooden beams.
- I took his mantle and spread it on the rough wood surface, and with some difficulty he stretched out upon it, face down.
- The smooth slate floor of the bottom level reflects the rough basalt on the pathway through a preserved grove of evergreens.
- His forehead is pressed against the rough, gritty plaster of the wall, sharp against his nose.
- I reached over and touched the five o'clock shadow that was already forming on his face, and felt the rough surface against his chin.
Synonyms uneven, irregular, bumpy, stony, rocky, broken, rugged, jaggy, craggy coarse, bristly, scratchy, prickly gnarled, knotty, lumpy, knobbly, nodular dry, leathery, weather-beaten - 1.1 Denoting the face of a tennis or squash racket from which the loops formed in the stringing process project (used as a call when the racket is spun to decide the right to serve first or to choose ends).
2(of a person or their behavior) not gentle; violent or boisterous. strollers should be capable of withstanding rough treatment Example sentencesExamples - He was harsh and demanding, rough and wild and erotic.
- Unlike the kisses we shared in the past, this kiss was rough, hard, and I could smell and taste the alcohol on his breath.
- At our old house in Chicago I had hung out with a rough crowd.
- Janet never abused Jamie, but she could be rough when she was drunk.
- He was rough, but not to the point where it actually hurt.
- Who knew that such a rough man could feel so right?
- It was a busy day and the rough customers were more than a little rowdy that evening.
- Alex's first attempt to save his friend from the rough sex maniac went sour, but he's determined to try again regardless of the consequences.
- I have to admit it excited me the way he was rough and aggressive.
- They're rough, dirty, and all about sweat and grime.
- He was a rough man, but out of his venality and his bestial nature erupted this divine expression on the canvas.
- A group of rough looking men sat around a fire, drinking and laughing heartily.
- The hand that was so gentle with love before was now harsh and rough with lust.
- They all had a nice chuckle when she informed them that she had a bit of experience playing football, but was kicked out of the league because she was too rough for most of the boys.
- The trouble is that they are not rough or ‘warehousey’ enough.
- ‘Yes, he owns the saloon and has a rough crowd hanging around all the time,’ she explained.
- Shannon's left eyebrow rose in speculation as Rogers fidgeted with the twin coffee mugs in his rough iron grip.
- As the Tavern continued to party, a table full of rough looking men stopped their discussion and looked up to where the fat cleric had his back to them.
- Of course, she wasn't stupid - the rough engineer had worn protective gauntlets to shield her hands from the impact of the armor.
- Mr. Woodhouse will be happy to have the boys temporarily under his care, because he thinks their father and uncle are too rough with them.
Synonyms violent, brutal, vicious careless, clumsy, inept, unskilful boorish, loutish, oafish, brutish, coarse, crude, uncouth, rough-hewn, roughcast, vulgar, unrefined, unladylike, ungentlemanly, uncultured, ill-bred, ill-mannered, unmannerly, impolite, churlish, discourteous, uncivil, ungracious, rude, brusque, blunt, curt harsh, hard, tough, stern, sharp, abrasive, severe, unfair, unjust, unrelenting, unfeeling, insensitive, nasty, cruel - 2.1 (of an area or occasion) characterized by or notorious for the occurrence of violent behavior.
the workmen hate going to the rough areas of town Example sentencesExamples - Living in a relatively rough part of town, I wasn't allowed out an awful lot.
- It is a very rough place and rarely does anyone from this area go there.
- Our house was situated in a rough section of town that was now undergoing the early stages of gentrification.
- Kim thought for a moment and then remembered what Rosie had said about wanting her baby to grow up in a loving family and not on some rough London estate.
- The area they moved to was rough, and Troy was soon caught up in a bad crowd.
- Although not a particularly rough town it had its unruly inhabitants, as did all dock towns.
- Gonzalez, a Stanford University graduate, grew up in a rough part of the Bay Area.
- He spent many of his summer days in back-alley taverns that were too rough for the usual city folk to drink in.
- 2.2 (of weather or the sea) wild and stormy.
the lifeboat crew braved rough seas to rescue a couple Example sentencesExamples - I chose to disregard it - I figured we had just hit rough seas.
- What a fragile vessel to sail into the rough seas that lay ahead!
- There were rough seas in the area at that time, the coast guard said, adding they dispatched patrol boats and planes Tuesday to search for the ship.
- We heard that the sea was rough over the Channel and did not expect you until the end of the week.
- The winds, storms, and currents combine to whip up huge seas, driving rough waves on top of massive swells.
- On this day there were tiny little rippling waves breaking on the sandy beach, but Rita told me that on occasion it could become very rough.
- I finally spotted her alone, outside on the veranda, looking at the rough ocean.
- There seemed to be waves buffeting me, one after another, like bathing in a rough sea.
- The amazons at the oars negotiated the rough sea with the utmost of care, proving their fine skill as seafarers.
- The pass is granted for next weekend, and Nurse Ratched takes out a newsclipping about how rough and dangerous the sea is this year.
- It was drawing close to winter, so the ocean was rough.
- How strong those gales turn out to be will determine whether the economy faces clear sailing or rough seas.
- The beach was rough that day; the waves were great if you were a surfer.
- He hugged her again, and she clung to him as if he was a raft in a rough sea.
- The first was that, though the sea was indeed rough, there was little rain, and the air lacked the clammy humidity of a thunderstorm.
- ‘This does not bode well with me,’ James said as he held his rifle as though it were a life preserver in rough seas.
- The sea was rough, but the setting sun had broken from the clouds and everything was vibrant in the sudden light.
- I do not think the man will come today; the seas are rough, and the horizon shows more storms to come.
- Jeremiah stopped his wagon outside a hotel and stepped down, his legs wobbly and sore, as if he'd been in rough seas.
- I was pushing him slowly over the edge that went off into a rough sea of destruction.
Synonyms turbulent, stormy, storm-tossed, tempestuous, violent, heavy, heaving, raging, choppy, agitated stormy, wild, tempestuous, squally, wet, rainy, windy, blustery
3Not finished tidily or decoratively; plain and basic. the customers sat at rough wooden tables Example sentencesExamples - Brick stringcourses decorated rough stucco walls, while semicircular lunettes arched over the main floor windows.
- In the corner there was a rough looking table made of cheap wood with many knot holes, with a corresponding short stool the Duke was seated on.
- The animation is rough and basic, crafted well but never flashy or spectacular.
- She had spotted him sitting in one corner, dark except for the candle on the table, which was dripping hot wax onto the rough, wooden table.
- An inventory of the National Gallery's furniture in 1856 lists only seven and a half dozen oak chairs and one rough deal table.
- Aunt Marion and Mrs. Nichols were both in the kitchen, sitting together at the rough and ancient table.
- The walls, as in the rest of the house, are finished in traditional rough plaster that complements the timber doors and architraves.
- The house didn't look as rough when the trio finished their work, and they were immensely proud.
- If you think the finish is somewhat rough, you are right, but there is a good reason for this.
- A rough, wooden, two-stick candelabrum graced one table, while the other sported a heavy glass oil lamp.
- It seemed a little odd to his mind, this mixture of rough furnishings and the truly fine finish of the structure itself.
Synonyms plain, basic, simple, rough and ready, rustic, rude, crude, primitive, spartan, uncomfortable - 3.1 Put together without the proper materials or skill; makeshift.
he had one arm in a rough sling Example sentencesExamples - Drake grabbed a handful of his hair and twisted cruelly just as he finished tying off the rough bandage.
- The finished products were rough looking, but they held together.
- He was standing frozen in the doorway, a rough sack of belongings slung over his shoulder.
- Throw together a rough prototype to bounce off users.
Synonyms primitive, simple, basic, rudimentary, rough and ready, rough-hewn, make-do, makeshift, improvised, cobbled together, thrown together, homespun, unfinished, unpolished, unformed, undeveloped - 3.2 Lacking sophistication or refinement.
she took care of him in her rough, kindly way Example sentencesExamples - Yet delicacy is not defeated, and this ambiguity in Jansons's paint handling - is it rough or is it refined?
- Ultimately this scheme has to do with the architects' pleasure in materials and light, and in juxtaposition of the rough and refined.
- They spoke together in their own rough language for a while before Rastif brought Sanchen over to them.
Synonyms boorish, loutish, oafish, brutish, coarse, crude, uncouth, rough-hewn, roughcast, vulgar, unrefined, unladylike, ungentlemanly, uncultured, ill-bred, ill-mannered, unmannerly, impolite, churlish, discourteous, uncivil, ungracious, rude, brusque, blunt, curt - 3.3 Not worked out or correct in every detail.
he had a rough draft of his new novel Example sentencesExamples - I performed a very rough draft to an invited Parliamentary audience.
- We started writing together when I approached her with an idea and a rough draft of a vampire script.
- I'm writing something real interesting, maybe I'll lend you the rough draft.
- While no fully unified vision emerged, the basic parameters of a rough consensus were forged during these years.
- This is a rough draft of a story and therefore the continuity is messed up.
- So, using the dividend yields seen during the 1998 crisis, rough target prices can be produced.
- As a working artist, when I look back on my early work I look at a rough draft of myself.
- He only did a rough draft, but he said he'd draw in all the fine details tomorrow.
- I wrote various rough drafts, too many of them sarcastic.
- Woodward's book is just the first, very rough draft of that key time in America's history.
- The book reads like a rough draft, not a polished book.
- Even though details are still rough, it's good to know that it placed so much thought into this masterpiece.
- Whoever drew them must have seen the two before, for the pictures were quite detailed, even for a rough sketch.
- When I am drawing, I use pencils for rough drafts and pens for final copies since it makes my drawings look more professional.
- Now that I was getting somewhere, I took out another piece of paper to write my rough draft on.
- Each story comes off as a rough draft in need of polish.
- Then, especially after I finally read the rough draft of the paper, I realized that was a pretty silly idea.
- Some manuscripts include rough and final drafts, and galley and page proofs.
- Firstly, the system is being developed online from 6 years of rough draft notes.
- Conversely, the ‘performer’ will be able to generate a rough Labanotation score that can be refined by a notator.
Synonyms preliminary, hasty, quick, sketchy, cursory, basic, crude, rudimentary, rough and ready, raw, unpolished, unrefined
4(of a voice) harsh and rasping. his voice was rough with barely suppressed fury Example sentencesExamples - When he spoke, his voice was rough and husky, barely above a whisper.
- Whispers followed that yell until a rough voice came out of nowhere.
- ‘I suppose if we're to be living together I should know who you are,’ he said in his rough voice.
- Devon's voice was rough from coughing, but he spoke up.
- Jeffrey's voice was rough and his words were harsh but Anthony remained calm and cool, save his eyes.
- His voice was unusually rough and that was all he said.
- She stayed up in the tree until a rough voice called out.
- The soldier's voice was rough as he spoke to the innkeeper.
- She suddenly heard a rough voice yell to her from the shadows.
- Her rough voice sounded almost hysterical as she dropped to her knees next to him, turning his lifeless body over and checking for a pulse.
- Unable to even squint at the harsh light, her voice was rough and dry.
- After a short pause, he heard the door open, followed by his uncle's rough voice before the latter finally appeared in his line of vision.
- Gavin's eyes had turned so dark a grey that they were nearly black, and his voice was rough with suppressed frustration and anger.
- Her voice was rough even though her words were velvet; it was as if her vocal cords had been run against stones over the years and no longer able to speak gently.
- Considering his height, then the steely look and his rough voice, both of which reminded me a lot of Carey, he was a rather intimidating person, even to me.
- A rough voice snagged her attention as they stopped before the gate.
- The voice was rough, but soothing, and she began to feel safer.
- ‘Majesty, we bring you a gift for the Prince,’ the man said in a rough voice.
- His rough voice suddenly seemed more attractive than threatening.
- The ‘leader’ asked in a rough voice that seemed more like a growl.
Synonyms gruff, hoarse, harsh, rasping, raspy, husky, throaty, gravelly, guttural raucous, discordant, cacophonous, grating, jarring, strident, harsh, dissonant, unmusical, inharmonious, unmelodious - 4.1 (of wine or another alcoholic drink) sharp or harsh in taste.
Example sentencesExamples - A fine wine match here is this rustic, slightly rough and spicy 100 per cent organic red, with enough heat and heft to manage the lamb.
- The rough red Italian vino was on the table for every meal and we drank it instead of water, not being too certain of the purity of the ship's drinking water.
- It is a lusty, even rough blend of Grenache, Syrah and Carignan.
- Good weight of fruit and a vaguely rough tannins lead to an unsurprising warm alcoholic finish.
- After eight hours, we had gone solo and had splendid dog fights over the moors, huge fun, especially after two pints of rough cider!
Synonyms sharp-tasting, sharp, sour, acidic, acid, vinegary
5informal Difficult and unpleasant or unfair. the teachers gave me a rough time because my image didn't fit the first day of a job is rough on everyone Example sentencesExamples - From a rough start, he has proven adroit at managing these public moments.
- She looked like she'd had a rough time, and there was a three-foot-thick solid wall a mile high around her heart.
- How many more people who he had never heard of before (and that happened to get off at rough starts) were they going to pick up?
- Such a sharp change in input markets is bound to lead to a rough transition as producers try to adapt technology to the new price environment.
- He had a rough time of it, but it was he who informed me of your capture.
- If this was the explanation, then they could be in for a rough time.
- If we rely on such counsel, if enhancing the national welfare depends on such, we are in for a rough time.
- All right, I understand that you've had a rough time, but there is no way you're finding out my past on these conditions.
- It's true, we may have given him a rough time last night, but I assure you, it's what any normal person would've done.
- Once they decided where to start, the going was rough.
- Maybe we'd had a rough start, but it didn't turn out half bad.
- Gideon and I had a rough start and it included many strange occurrences but we are happy and that is all that matters.
- She was going to have a rough time with Wilson in the jungle for a year.
- Admittedly they got off to a rough start, but she was a very casual person.
- Cost overruns from the 1995 expansion made for a rough start in 1996.
- Moreover, it was clear that a shy, sensitive boy like me was not fit to encounter the rough experience of a public school.
- From the rough start at the beginning of the day, everything deteriorated.
- Accompanying partners can have a rough time of it too.
- She was having a rough time explaining to Scott that she was involved with someone, and that he needed to back off.
- He had a rough time with the bills piling up, the electricity and water going off sometimes when he least expected it.
Synonyms difficult, hard, tough, bad, unpleasant, demanding, arduous - 5.1as complement Unwell.
the altitude had hit her and she was feeling rough Synonyms ill, unwell, poorly, bad, out of sorts, indisposed, not oneself, sick, queasy, nauseous, nauseated, peaky, liverish, green about the gills, run down, washed out, faint, dizzy, giddy, light-headed
adverbrəfrəf informal In a manner that lacks gentleness; harshly or violently. treat ’em rough but treat ’em fair
nounrəfrəf 1British A disreputable and violent person. Example sentencesExamples - Two teams of roughs, clothed in only their union-suits, attempt to wrest the boar-skin from each other's possession.
- Exhausted, the roughs finally shaken off, at 1 a.m. the sweat-soaked, frightened, and bedraggled dandy hammered at the door of his last-hope refuge.
Synonyms ruffian, thug, lout, hooligan, hoodlum, rowdy, bully boy, brawler 2(on a golf course) longer grass around the fairway and the green. his second shot was in the rough on the left Example sentencesExamples - Paul Crowe, the club's golf manager, describes it to me as ‘primal - a battle with the elements and natural roughs.’
- The 425-yard par four is a dog-leg right, with trees lining the left side and heavy rough and a fairway bunker on the right.
3A preliminary sketch for a design. I did a rough to work out the scale of the lettering Example sentencesExamples - Then I went into the mixing studio for six weeks and worked from 7.00 am to 8: 30 am doing the drawings and colour roughs.
- Since most do not want to believe me, at a couple of random points during the semester, I will take one of the student's pinned-up roughs and wax poetic about various points and rationales.
- Some artists are willing and able to create roughs or prototypes to illustrate to a licensee just how well their work would suit products.
- I have roughs for about four or five more, including Oliver Twist and a couple of others I should be able to get to.
- Behind the jar, a sketch pad is peopled with figurative roughs, historical drafts - the preliminaries of art and history, of cultural recognition.
- They want something new every time, and heaven forbid you actually made a ‘good design’ on the first set of roughs.
Synonyms preliminary sketch, draft, outline, mock-up, model, artist's impression 4An uncut precious stone. Example sentencesExamples - Over the course of six decades, Frank Sinatra managed to be both the diamond and the rough.
verbrəfrəf [with object]1Work or shape (something) in a rough, preliminary fashion. flat surfaces of wood are roughed down Example sentencesExamples - Using that comp, the artist roughs out a model in Maya.
- Few anchorages were available in this vast maze of coastline, with its network of inlets whose beds had been roughed in with decisive strokes of Nature's creative tools.
- The closet bend and toilet floor flange must be roughed in first.
- 1.1rough something out Produce a preliminary and unfinished sketch or version of something.
the engineer roughed out a diagram on his notepad Example sentencesExamples - There is however one last snaggette to the system we've just been roughing out.
- One day in March I was roughing out a scene in the script in which the off-screen voice of my aunt was introducing the action in the laundry room of a typical Argentine house.
- Working with the comp and some basic reference colors, the understructure of the ship is roughed out.
- Once Thompson had roughed out a design that divided the 3,300 square feet into four distinct areas, Lennon took a look and had him open up the design to allow for more square footage in the A room.
- In the beginning, we would sit together at a computer in New York or Chicago and rough things out, which was a lot of fun but extremely unproductive.
- Woke this morning with the grim realization that I had not polished the column - in fact, I'd just roughed it out, sketched out the basic ideas.
Synonyms draft, sketch out, outline, block out, mock up - 1.2 Make uneven or ruffled.
rough up the icing with a palette knife the water was roughed by the wind Example sentencesExamples - The middle of the album is largely filled with the former, leaving the latter to rough up the record's edges.
- The ice is roughed up pretty badly, which slows things down and keeps me from busting my tail.
- It was flat at the sides, where it was cut quite short, and the top was longer, his fringe was roughed up, the kind of style that makes you want to run your fingers through it!
- Peter smiled and roughed his hair like he was just a kid.
- Grosvenor used a chain saw to rough up the top face of the work, which is at a tall viewer's eye level.
2rough itinformal Live in discomfort with only basic necessities. she had had to rough it alone in a dive Example sentencesExamples - How many other commercially successful directors, at 40-plus, would head off to the Afghan border to rough it with a DV camera?
- Besides, it doesn't take much to taste good when you are roughing it.
- She also found that while she was supposed to be attending equestrian lessons, she was ditching them more and more often in favor of simply saddling her horse western style and roughing it on the trails.
- She thinks that roughing it is going without a nail file.
- Of course, with him, roughing it doesn't actually mean roughing it.
- With all their food provided by others, their idea of roughing it is to park a Winnebago in a campsite and worry that they won't be able to use their satellite dish when the extension cord doesn't reach the outlet.
- If he had the choice of sleeping in a warm bed or roughing it, he'd obviously choose the first.
- Is there even a restaurant here or are we roughing it on the beach?
- It can scarcely be said that Byron and his staff were roughing it at Metaxata.
- Man cannot live by roughing it alone, which is why the first part of my journey is spent in the five-star opulence of the Tanjung Aru Resort in the state capital, Kota Kinabulu.
- It's all very well roughing it in your twenties, but it tends to lose its novelty after a while.
- She can picture herself roughing it with a backpack and Eurail pass - as long as there is a massage and room service at end of the trek.
- Tell me you'd rather be out here roughing it, then at home and cozy.
- He has certainly roughed it and it would be very unfair if someone else comes in and is appointed coach.
- So Tony once roughed it on a London park bench, having travelled there to try and become a rock star.
- She just wasn't used to roughing it so much and it didn't help that Trom and Vicki started arguing with one another again.
- There was nothing like roughing it, though maybe last night had gotten a little too rough.
- ‘I'm all for sleeping in these clothes and roughing it tonight,’ she muttered.
- Theoretically, if the tent has stayed up, then we could have roughed it in it.
- Little Nicky may be an exact copy of his DNA-donor, but Gordie was a stray for a couple of years and roughed it.
Phrases informal A male sexual partner whose toughness or lack of sophistication is a source of attraction. Example sentencesExamples - Beers not cocktails are the order of the day but you might pick up a nice bit of rough on the way out.
- So, whilst many gay men like a bit of rough there are obviously many who like a bit of posh.
- ‘They've cottoned on to me as a bit of northern erotica,’ he has jokingly said of the women that turn up to his readings, ‘a bit of rough.’
- So what, she's his little bit of rough on the side?
- If anyone ever needs proof that he is more than a meat-fisted warrior and rather attractive bit of rough, they should watch this film.
- But Bourne creates a parallel story in which the hero's neglected fiancée, Glenda, is picked up by a check-shirted, trumpet-playing bit of rough.
- And she switches expertly from the upper crust wife yearning for a bit of rough to the cold company strategist.
- This reading implies that the tragedy could have been averted if only Beatrice had recognised her longing for a bit of rough, and had not pretended to fancy the aristocratic squares a woman of her class was expected to marry.
- The heroine of Martinu's Mirandolina seduces a self-confessed misogynist, only to reconfirm his prejudices when she dumps him for a bit of rough.
- I always knew I'm just a bit of rough while you rebound from the divorce.
1In a natural state; without decoration or other treatment. Example sentencesExamples - And so begins a tale of romance between the lowest of the low and a rich politician who must learn to love this diamond in the rough as she truly is.
- Those who made the effort to find the show discovered a true diamond in the rough - a show that captured everything good about improvisational comedy in a pseudo-sitcom format.
- Port Royal is a gem in the rough, a fact that the English Royals are quite aware of.
- Despite those small complaints, I feel this film was an overlooked gem in the rough during its theatrical run, and would make a fine rental or purchase now that it is out on DVD, especially for those readers with children.
- Despite how content some of us may be with Linux in the rough, nontechnical users don't always appreciate the struggle.
- But she wants to stay in the rough so I should just leave her that way.
- Lead may be worked directly, by being hammered or beaten into shape, or indirectly, melted and cast as with bronze, or it may be cast in the rough and then finished by hammering.
- Well, they were kind of picked over, but I found some diamonds in the rough.
- In the presence of greatness, especially in the rough, where honor is often due the sage who stands outside the affairs of the world, every word or action can be persuasive.
- No let us not discuss me darling, you are topic of everyone in town, and deserve it completely, for you are the brightest sun and the diamond in the rough of all the unpolished rocks that are the other jewels.
even before the recession hit, the project was in the rough Example sentencesExamples - The road of his thought was labyrinthine and sometimes ended in the rough of Vietnam or Richard Nixon.
- A group of 10 partners bought the course as a real estate investment in 1988, just in time for the regional real estate market to land in the rough.
a rough-and-ready estimating method Example sentencesExamples - It is pretty rough and ready but it is asking the right questions.
- He's recorded live, too, which leaves some of Jamie's piano solos sounding rough and ready, but gives the performances the power of a live show.
- It's very rough and ready, and a bit ragged round the edges, but it does work, and I've made very sure to point out to anyone looking that it's not the real odeon website.
- Obviously these figures are rough and ready, but they evidence a point.
- So it's still a little rough and ready, although it clearly is maturing, I think.
- It's rough and ready and it's simple lack of visual elegance makes it so much more enjoyable.
- Churning out three and four-deckers at his factory rate of production (and he did much else than write novels) meant that Scott was occasionally obliged to be rough and ready in the finer points of construction.
- The result is ragged, rough and ready, very fresh and completely invigorating.
- ‘The recording session was a little rough and ready - the song was literally made in a room in someone's house,’ Tom laughs.
- The sporting code, which had been rough and ready for most of the nineteenth century, especially in Africa, began to impose more self-restraint on hunters.
Synonyms basic, simple, crude, unrefined, unpolished, unsophisticated preliminary, hasty, quick, sketchy, cursory, basic, crude, rudimentary, rough and ready, raw, unpolished, unrefined plain, basic, simple, rough and ready, rustic, rude, crude, primitive, spartan, uncomfortable - 1.1(of a person or place) unsophisticated or unrefined.
Example sentencesExamples - Many people who went past looked rough and ready so Arthur didn't approach them.
- The Old Town, in its heyday, was apparently a teeming place, rough and ready and full of humanity with all its flaws, vices and passion.
- One of these men is the rough and ready Sam Hell (Piper).
- His characters - the men, at least - are rough and ready, and thrown down on the page with tons of energy.
- ‘If it was all too perfect it wouldn't have had that kind of rough and ready atmosphere to it that gives it its magic,’ explains Evelyn.
- In either case, you may be as rough and ready with my master as you find needful; it will be he who has frightened her, and not you.
- He seemed the rough and ready type despite his skinny frame.
- But this is almost as much Bogart's film, and he was wonderful playing against type as a businessman instead of the rough and ready tough guys he was known for.
- Sara and Victoria were both nice enough, Danielle was a little rough and ready but I thought her heart was in the right place, and Amy had always seemed perfectly friendly and personable.
- He certainly secured advantageous marriages for his children and, despite a sometimes rough and ready personal manner, he attracted numerous clients.
Synonyms basic, simple, crude, unrefined, unpolished, unsophisticated
1Having a few imperfections. until we clean up and lay down the new carpet, it's going to look a little rough around the edges Example sentencesExamples - It's not as smooth as I'd like it to be - I haven't really written fiction for a while, and my last effort wasn't very good, so things are a bit rough around the edges.
- The documentary is a bit grainy and rough around the edges, but where else are you going to learn about this unheralded piece of animation history?
- This is a dark film, a bit rough around the edges, but its willingness to examine the connections between violence and ambition in the male world of the story makes it a bracing and memorable experience.
- The stealth aspect of the game is also a little rough around the edges since sneaking past guards or security cameras is based almost entirely on trial and error.
- However, they're still a bit rough around the edges - sound quality would make an enormous difference.
- In a way, the image quality matches the film - it's gritty and a bit rough around the edges, but it always delivers where it counts.
- This debut effort shows lots of promise, but is still rough around the edges.
- ‘When we talked about what our goals were, all three of us said we really wanted to communicate a message, even if it's kind of rough around the edges - we all just really wanted to get it out,’ she says.
- This one is rough around the edges; however, its heart is luminous.
- The camerawork is enthusiastic and the editing has some nice touches - cutting on beats and using splitscreen effects - but it's rough around the edges and would have benefited from a more seasoned hand to give a little more direction.
- 1.1Not refined.
Donnie is a bit rough around the edges, but she loves him Example sentencesExamples - Sure, some of the families in town were a little rough around the edges but he kept an eye on them and made sure nothing ever got out of hand.
- Kelly was rough around the edges, the kind of girl who would stomp a grown man flat if she had to, despite her cotton-headed complexion, so I knew her smiling through her bite of waffles was the equivalent of a usual person laughing out loud.
- My problem is that he's a little rough around the edges.
- There was something about being away from home that changed a person - he was thinner, leaner, more rough around the edges than he had been in September.
- And there was something about him-maybe it was the fact that in spite of all his finery he seemed a little rough around the edges, a little wild, that drew her to him.
- He was rugged-looking, rough around the edges, and too wild.
- He's a bit rough around the edges, but she was able to overcome that knowing that Brandon is happy with him.
- He stood with Gary, a stout young man, a bit awkward and rough around the edges.
- ‘Plenty of people are smart, but they may be rough around the edges,’ says Hall.
- I always liked girls that were rough around the edges.
the rough edge (or side) of one's tongue you two stop quarreling or you'll get the rough edge of my tongue Example sentencesExamples - After an unusual lashing with the rough side of his tongue, Ian ordered Grant to post sentries every few yards along the crest of the hill.
- The King pronounced himself delighted to be among ‘grave, learned and reverend men’, though he gave both bishops and Puritans the rough edge of his tongue as discussions proceeded over three days.
- Even the poor old Pope gets the rough edge of his tongue - for showing him ‘a total lack of respect’ when they met.
Small imperfections in someone or something that is basically satisfactory. Example sentencesExamples - While this board clearly has some rough edges, they all seem fairly minor and generally fixable.
- And even if the play has the faintly over-workshopped quality you often find in American drama, in which all the rough edges are planed down, it still exerts a fiercely intelligent grip.
- But, especially as the orchestra develops, and finds itself playing on other than home territory, some of those rough edges will need to be smoothed and polished.
- Radio can be good fun and tends to knock off the rough edges so that you can develop as a smoother performer, ready for your big break in front of the camera.
- But for others it takes off the rough edges, it takes out all the excitement of a work by trying to make it more acceptable to an audience.
- We live in a sanitized world, where spin and public image disinfects and sanitises any rough edges to our entertainment.
- Of course there were some rough edges, sagging phrases, and intonation problems, but these were soon forgotten when swept up into an interpretation of passion and character.
- Attempts to open the play up by occasionally taking it outside are not very effective, but despite the film's rough edges, the issues that are brought up are fascinating.
- You've got to take the rough edges off if it's going to succeed.
- But tempting as it is to smooth over the rough edges, a richer self-portrait of the artist emerges when you consider the inconsistencies within and between each film.
Treatment that is not scrupulously fair or in accordance with the law. Example sentencesExamples - Yet comparing price-sales ratios offers a couple of advantages: First, it exacts a kind of rough justice, just the sort the market has been meting out lately.
- But in the meantime, it's hard to feel too bothered when the Internet community's long-established tradition of dispensing its own rough justice means that the world has one less spam king.
- Such rough justice is popular, but it is hardly an ideal atmosphere in which to persuade people to in effect sign up voluntarily for the sex offenders’ register.
- These days it seems you don't have to look very far to find someone handing out pitchforks and torches and organizing a mob to administer rough justice on some bar.
- The problem with such a proactive system of justice is that it is prone to rough justice.
- But there seems a kind of rough justice in his being forced to arbitrate between Satan and God in a diabolical chat show and, for all its shock and schlock tactics, the show implies that TV has a moral responsibility.
- The overall American legal framework was reinterpreted and adapted to fit the exigent circumstances, and rough justice was often the result.
- It's rough justice, but justice all the same, from a certain point of view.
- But if that's what happened in these cases, it's at least rough justice.
- It is rough justice, but with a sound foundation.
1A journey over rough sea. - 1.1A difficult process of achieving something or of becoming successful.
the rough passage faced by the legislation Example sentencesExamples - Ultimately, Geldof discovered more about America and himself than America learned about him during the rough passage that climaxed at the Palladium in New York.
- The Stones had a rough passage through the Flower Power era, but came out the other side harder, flasher - with their eyes re-opened.
- It's had a rough passage at times, particularly post-9 / 11.
- I told her that it might be a rough passage, but I believed that she had a good chance of being able to walk again.
- Whatever way you look at it, a rough passage would be a fair appraisal for his sojourn at the top so far.
Boisterous or violent behavior. Example sentencesExamples - Usually, we give the recruits a week and a half before we start the rough stuff, but given the situation, we're resorting to shock tactics.
- When there's too much rough stuff going on, captains will get lectures from the referee in front of the penalty box and coaches are as adamant as ever when things don't go the team's way.
- Yet in a movie that dishes out its share of rough stuff, it's not the violence that gets to people - the pivotal scene in which a grown man cries has caused the biggest fuss.
- ‘I guess she doesn't get into much rough stuff,’ I offer.
- She keeps the rough stuff to a minimum, though the emotional abuse is continually evident, in a tale of two lovers caught up in their own personal tragedy.
Sleep in uncomfortable conditions, typically outdoors. Example sentencesExamples - After being made redundant, she slept rough for a few nights in a derelict building and was unlucky enough to be caught in a heavy frost.
- It helps the vulnerable people in our society who find themselves homeless and having to sleep rough, along with those who are isolated or are trying to rebuild their lives.
- He cannot stay at grandmother's because of the condition of his licence and he is now sleeping rough.
- It shows that almost a third of young people put themselves at risk by staying with a stranger while away from home, two out of five young people slept rough, one in eight was physically hurt and one in nine was sexually assaulted.
- As the temperature struggled to remain above zero, volunteers slept rough to raise awareness of the struggles facing the homeless on a day-to-day basis.
- On the night of January 8 he was found a bed, but had to sleep rough outside the Home Office the following night.
- Meanwhile, between three and six hundred people sleep rough in Melbourne every night.
- On average three people a night sleep rough in Richmond.
- They all slept rough the previous night and many managed to blank out the morning sniffing glue.
- In it, they describe the circumstances in which they became homeless and visit some of the places in the district in which they have slept rough, from a cemetery in Keighley to a derelict barn.
take the rough with the smooth Accept the difficult or unpleasant aspects of life as well as the good. Example sentencesExamples - But we have had some dubious decisions against us and you have to take the rough with the smooth.
- It was the physical game as predicted and both teams took the rough with the smooth.
- ‘As I said politics is politics, and I can take the rough with the smooth, but if this if the way we are going to go in the future, then politics, those involved in it, and County Mayo will not benefit,’ he said.
- All too keen to be the centre of attention when announcing a waiting lists initiative or a patient-focused plan, he must learn to take the rough with the smooth and get stuck in where necessary.
- After all, isn't reality about taking the rough with the smooth?
- The rain did not help, but you have to take the rough with the smooth.
- He never discounted the romantic element but at the same time looked for a completeness that can come by taking the rough with the smooth.
- You can't come into politics and complain - you've got to take the rough with the smooth.
- But he has learned to take the rough with the smooth.
- In an interesting formulation, he says of himself: ‘You have to take the rough with the smooth without getting so thick-skinned that you no longer bleed.’
Phrasal Verbs Example sentencesExamples - Fearing that the criminal would return and rough me up, I blew on my crime whistle to wake my neighbors for help.
- There the recruits were forced to kneel against the wall, where they were roughed up and drenched with cold water.
- The evening in question, I'd been cornered by a trio of thugs, who took great delight in roughing me up.
- Bob thinks Decker is attempting to brainwash Sandra, so he roughs Decker up.
- And Darrow then turns on Mencken and roughs him up rhetorically.
- The pizzas are knocked flying as the thugs nab Stan and start roughing him up.
- For the second start in a row, on Saturday night they made short work of the 39-year-old Yankee starter in their domicile, roughing him up for four runs and knocking him out after two innings.
- Failing to do this will result in Internet thugs coming to your house and roughing you up.
- So, since the gangsters know they can get away with it they try to rough her up.
- She ran a hand through her hair and felt the cut where she had been roughed up by Derek.
Synonyms beat up, beat, attack, assault, knock about, knock around, maltreat, mistreat, abuse, batter, manhandle
Origin Old English rūh, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch ruw and German rauh. |