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Roughness

noun

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

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

... beautiful—the past seems a dream. Voice lovely still, but not quite under her control always, and a tiny roughness in it that humanises, somehow—it was too clear before, ...

— Margarita's Soul - The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty • Ingraham Lovell

... its first victim. In the white twilight she forgot the social gap that lay between her and the youth beside her. She ceased to observe the size and roughness of his hands, but noted instead the fine breadth of his shoulders. She concerned herself no longer with his verbal lapses, but responded instead to his glowing confidence that everybody was as sincere and well intentioned as himself. She discovered what the more sophisticated Rose had ...

— Quin • Alice Hegan Rice

... made by the screw-press now owned by all well to-do planters. The size of the hogsheads containing the tobacco was regulated by law to the standard of four feet six inches in length, but the shape of the cask varied according to the fancy of the cooper, or roughness of his work. At this period (a century ago), the tobacco hogshead was made most generally of white oak; but Spanish oak, and red oak, were sometimes used, when the usual kind could not be so readily commanded. Now the hogsheads are made of ...

— Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce • E. R. Billings

... on him and the roughness with which he was moved sent Ross spiraling back into the dark once again. When he aroused for the second time it was night and the pain in his head was dulled. He put out his hands and discovered that he lay on a pile of fur robes, ...

— The Time Traders • Andre Norton

... under the supervision of one who had not served at the trade. His youth had also told against him; but Richard's pleasant, off-hand manner quickly won them. He had come in contact with rough men on shipboard; he had studied their ways, and he knew that with all their roughness there is no class so sensitive. This insight was of great service to him. Stevens, who had perhaps been the least disposed to accept Richard, was ...

— The Stillwater Tragedy • Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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