18 examples of roughish in sentences

"You say that Miss Molly, 'looking more lovely than ever in her handsome new gown, greeted her guests with a roughish smile.'

"A 'roughish' smile.

Monday morning found the dissipated crew still the guests of the Sizers, and when big Bill slowly spelled out the assertion made by the Tribune that his sister had "a roughish smile" loud cries of indignation arose.

As bad as toimes are, an' as feaw as things look, We're certain they met ha' bin worse; We'n had tommy to eat, an' clooas to put on; They'n only bin roughish, aw know.

I had hardly begun to admire the scene, when a gentleman in a blue flannel sort of dress, with a roughish beard and a cigar in his mouth, made his appearance, and was presented to me as the Bishop of Labuan!

They are succeeded by small, roughish fruit, resembling an infant cucumber, but they usually fall off before becoming ripe.

"Sir Walter Scott suggests overhauling Caulfield's portraits of remarkable characters (3 vols., 1816), and having roughish woodcuts taken from that book and from others, and the biographies newly done, whenever they are not in the words of the old original writers.

They're tenant-farmers about here mostly, and rather a roughish lot, as you may say.

D.The leaves have an herbaceous, somewhat acrid, roughish taste, accompanied with an aromatic flavour.

L. E.This herb, in its recent state, has a weak roughish aromatic taste, and a pleasant smell, somewhat of the lemon kind.

This has a light agreeable smell; and a roughish, somewhat warm and bitterish taste.

These have at first a sweetish taste, which gradually becomes bitterish and roughish.

These have a roughish, somewhat mucilaginous taste.

These and the flowers have an herbaceous, roughish, somewhat bitterish taste, accompanied with a very weak aromatic flavour.

It has an herbaceous roughish taste, and hence stands recommended in haemorrhages and alvine fluxes.

These have an herbaceous, roughish taste: they have long been celebrated for sanative virtues, both internally and externally; nevertheless their effects, in any intention, are not considerable enough to gain them a place in the present practice.

It has a mucilaginous roughish taste, and hence is recommended as emollient and astringent, but has never been much regarded in practice.

Their taste is roughish, bitter, pungent, and extremely unpleasant: they stand strongly recommended by Simon Pauli against dysenteries; but their forbidding taste has prevented its coming into practice.

18 examples of  roughish  in sentences