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Roughness

noun

A texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven. Synonym: raggedness.

The quality of being unpleasant (harsh or rough or grating) to the senses. Synonym: harshness.

An unpolished unrefined quality. Synonym: crudeness.

Used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather. Synonyms: choppiness, rough water.

Rowdy behavior. Synonyms: disorderliness, rowdiness, rowdyism.

The formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion. Synonyms: indentation, pitting.

Harsh or severe speech or behavior. "The roughness of her voice was a signal to keep quiet"

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"Roughness" Quotes from Famous Books

... you would," the doctor said, with a roughness of tone intended to hide the sinking of his heart and the faltering of his voice. "All I know is, that you had better get away from here. Some of Sotillo's men may turn up here looking ...

— Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard • Joseph Conrad

... this face of the mountain; yet her feet grew cold, as she stood patiently in her steps, advancing slowly as the man before her moved. Once as she stood, she moved her foot and scratched the sole of her boot on the ice to level a roughness in the step, and at once she saw Chayne and the guide in front drive the picks of their axes hard into the slope at their side and stand tense as if expecting a jerk upon the rope. Afterward they both looked round at her, and ...

— Running Water • A. E. W. Mason

... resided there all my life until within the last few years," suggests but slight cause for his love of Richmond, the home of his childhood, the darkening clouds of which, viewed through the softening lens of years, may have shaded off to brighter tints, as the roughness of a landscape disappears and melts into mystic, dreamy beauty as we journey far from ...

— Literary Hearthstones of Dixie • La Salle Corbell Pickett

... out through the still lingering crowd and put her into the cab. As they drove along, he felt every jolt and roughness of the street as though he were himself in anguish. She was some time before she recovered the jar of pain caused her by the act of getting into the cab. Her breath came fast, and he could see that she was trying hard to control herself ...

— Marcella • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... not bear her finding fault with Carrie, who was such a paragon in my eyes. But Jessie took no notice of my manner, she was such a wise little creature; and I cannot help thinking that the less importance we attach to people's manner the better. Under a little roughness there is often good stuff, and some good people ...

— Esther - A Book for Girls • Rosa Nouchette Carey

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