roughness
Example Sentences
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The aesthetic favors deliberate roughness and mistakes over a sterile, polished sheen.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026
This analysis revealed subtle roughness at the interfaces of these channels.
From Science Daily • Mar. 5, 2026
Most EV charging stocks didn’t perform very well this year, partially due to roughness in the EV market.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 31, 2025
In a 1919 review of a pair of books by Theodore Dreiser, Virginia Woolf issued some exquisitely backhanded praise for the Indiana-born author, whose writing, she thought, stood out for its roughness and vitality.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025
The roughness of her pretty hands was hidden by a pair of white cotton gloves.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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