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in the rough
adjective as in crude
adjective as in unfinished
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- amateurish
- crude
- cut short
- dabbling
- defective
- deficient
- dilettante
- faulty
- formless
- found wanting
- fragmentary
- half-baked
- half-done
- immature
- imperfect
- in the making
- lacking
- natural
- not done
- plain
- raw
- rough
- roughhewn
- shapeless
- sketchy
- tentative
- unaccomplished
- unassembled
- uncompleted
- unconcluded
- under construction
- undone
- unexecuted
- unfashioned
- unperfected
- unpolished
- unrefined
- wanting
adjective as in unprocessed
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Strong match
Weak matches
Example Sentences
“But the diamond in the rough is that the Duke’s family and the surfing community have all rallied around. I am so appreciative.”
Centrica wants to invest £2bn in the Rough facility, so it can use it to store hydrogen as the UK starts to burn less natural gas as part of green targets.
Every day I felt like I was watching a split screen film with two shows running simultaneously — the fantasy taking place in the dining room juxtaposed with what was going on behind the scenes in the rough and tumble world of the kitchen.
Mahmoud is a cheeky teenager who beams the biggest of smiles even though he lost his front teeth in the rough and tumble of kids’ play.
Wild Mother had also turned to social media to find her tribe - having been called "a weirdo, an alien, a diamond in the rough" offline - and has built a following of thousands.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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