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a. (context idiomatic English) In need of refinement; unsophisticated. alt. (context idiomatic English) In need of refinement; unsophisticated.
Usage examples of "rough around the edges".
We may be a little rough around the edges, but the Granites have a code of honor.
No one ever got fired for going with enhanced photorealism, but Hackworth's own signature look was lifted from nineteenth-century patent applications: black on white, shades of gray implied with nearly microscopic crosshatching, old-fashioned letterpress font a little rough around the edges.
They might be a bit rough around the edges though the man who vomited in a bucket that had been used to bring him beer did wipe his mouth on his sleeve with elan.
No one ever got fired for going with enhanced photorealism, but Hackworth's own signature look was lifted from nineteenth-century patent applications: black on white, shades of gray implied with nearlycrosshatching, old-fashioned letterpress font a little rough around the edges.
And he himself, despite his Palace patronage and brand-new title, must seem rough around the edges next to someone like Thamir, who had been born to wealth and position.
He would be intelligent, speak several languages, (so he could purr Gaelic love words in her ear), but not too polished, a little rough around the edges.
Though he was a bit rough around the edges still, he appeared sober and steady.
The only mark was a crack running around its middle, slightly rough around the edges.
A bit rough around the edges, mayhap, but I think I can help him to soften those.
She might well have become an opera singer had circumstances been different, had she not been so rough around the edges, had she not been as rough as guts, had she not been as rough as the rough end of a pineapple.
He was rough around the edges, the type who could erupt with a flurry of fists and lay waste to a humble street lawyer.
Why did he become only more arousing when he was a little rough around the edges?