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rough-spoken

[ ruhf-spoh-kuhn ]

adjective

  1. coarse or vulgar in speech.


rough-spoken

adjective

  1. rude or uncouth in speech; blunt
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of rough-spoken1

First recorded in 1625–35
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Example Sentences

One and all they were hard-boiled, used to the open, rough-spoken, and indifferent to Cheyenne's presence.

He was a rough spoken kind of a man too, I suppose, he insinuated.

Tenderly those rough handed, rough-spoken men raised the death-frozen little ones.

He was a boisterous, rough-spoken mortal, but his heart was big, and set in the right place.

Then Clemantiny went back into the kitchen and cried—good, rough-spoken, tender-hearted Clemantiny sat down and cried.

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