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rough-spoken
[ ruhf-spoh-kuhn ]
adjective
- coarse or vulgar in speech.
rough-spoken
adjective
- rude or uncouth in speech; blunt
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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.
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He was a rough spoken kind of a man too, I suppose, he insinuated.
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Tenderly those rough handed, rough-spoken men raised the death-frozen little ones.
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He was a boisterous, rough-spoken mortal, but his heart was big, and set in the right place.
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Then Clemantiny went back into the kitchen and cried—good, rough-spoken, tender-hearted Clemantiny sat down and cried.
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