What is "roughish"

Usage examples of "roughish".

We found rather a roughish lot assembled, and imagined the smuggling element to preponderate over the religious, but nothing could be better than the way in which they treated us.

He could make pretty good play in thick country, and ride a roughish horse, too.

Starlight had changed his clothes, and was dressed like a swell -- away on a roughish trip, but still like a swell.

He had a roughish time in the War and the damage often takes years to come out.

After a roughish time you found your feet, and are now a partner in Ravelstons, and one of the chief figures in American finance.

The day he come was rather roughish and cold: he seemed sort of bad when he come into the house, and had to have some brandy.

Her hair was cut in a roughish home-made bob and she had small white ankle socks of exactly the kind that French girls wear.

Then I reflected that I was owed a little peace, for I had had a roughish life.

I glanced through the topmost volume and saw that the pages were a thickish grade of vellum, and that every page was filled with a roughish handwriting that was not instantly legible, although it was written in English.

The mental in Van always rimmed the sensuous: unforgettable, roughish, villous, Villaviciosa velour.