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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
“Everyone would want the diamond in the rough, which is really the studios business ... and HBO.”
Vinny would hit his drive in the fairway; Danny would hit his in the rough; Steve would hit his in the bunker, march into the sand, and grab the ball and toss it out, near Vinny’s.
“They’re really making a lot by thinking ‘How do I take an athlete that maybe was a diamond in the rough or maybe it wasn’t in the youth group and get them moving up the chain?’”
Like most late-round prospects hoping to become a diamond in the rough, Horn came with questions.
As training camp unfolds, the Chargers may have unearthed a diamond in the rough with fifth-round pick KeAndre Lambert-Smith, the 21st wide receiver selected in the draft.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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