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Example sentences for: rough

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But we would like, with some sense of rough justice, to create a system in which each increment of government force results in a greater decrement of private force, so that at the margin the sum of both is minimized.
Even Chatterbox's guru, Charles "Bhagwan" Peters of the Washington Monthly, one of the few journalists who gave credence to the Gennifer Flowers tapes early on, argues that the voters rightly don't care much about Flytrap because they've known the rough contours of Clinton's character for years.
Because nomenclature and characterization often go hand-in-hand, evaluating the state of nomenclature can provide a rough estimate of the extent to which members of the collection have been previously characterized.
She was helping us through some rough times."
The heroes of his early stories, from the 1940s and '50s, tend to be poor, inarticulate shopkeepers and workers (tailors, grocers, shoemakers, census-takers--Malamud almost always identified his characters by profession, in a bow to the proletarianism of the '30s), New York Jews mostly, whose rough outer appearances suddenly fall away to reveal inner souls of the purest lyrical passion.