rougher

[ ruhf-er ]

noun

1. a person or thing that roughs or roughs out something, as certain crude cutting tools or a person who performs the first, rough parts of a process.

Word History and Origins

Origin of rougher¹

First recorded in 1880–85; rough + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Maybe he’d be more like a regular Republican, just a lot rougher around the edges.

From Slate

This first period has without question been rougher than Labour would have expected.

From BBC

“What we’ve seen, certainly within the last probably 15 years or so, has been a return to more of that kind of rougher, more masculine kind of appearance,” master barber Matty Conrad told The Washington Post in its article about Vance breaking the hairy ceiling.

From Salon

Tournaments began as rougher, less “gentlemanly” affairs in which competitors rode against each other with lances and then proceeded to fight with close-quarters weapons ahorse or on foot.

From Salon

Perhaps that’s why the style-conscious are increasingly gravitating to nostalgia, the rougher days of red carpet looks, and, most remarkably, the film director.

From Los Angeles Times

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