rough-and-ready

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adj crude but serviceable

adjective. contingent, tentative

adjective. basic, incomplete

adjective. basic, incomplete

adjective. basic, incomplete

adjective. temporarily helping

You are one of the rough-and-ready order, who are never late.

Then came the rough-and-ready sentence of the camp-followers.

McCook and Wood swear like pirates, and affect the rough-and-ready style.

Rough-and-Ready said nothing at the time, and De Lisle attended to his duty as usual.

Their organisation is rough-and-ready, like themselves, and simple too.

He was simply an uncultured, ignorant, rough-and-ready, Irish-American backwoodsman.

Rough-and-ready justice was administered by the Mayor and his brethren, the Aldermen.

Richard could not adopt that rough-and-ready way out of his difficulty.

He took a liking to the rough-and-ready straightforwardness of the American.

And many of his images were much more of the rough-and-ready, than of the classical, order.