Thesaurus / rough-hewn
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The camp grew still, except for the rough and ready cook pottering about the fire, boiling buffalo-meat and mixing biscuit-dough.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIRIt was only a hut of rough boards, carelessly knocked together for a shepherd's temporary home.
RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSONHe reached up for her big, rough straw hat that hung on a peg outside the door, and put it on her head.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINEngland proclaimed a rough indignation at the demand for Gibraltar, which Austria had made in behalf of Spain.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTERThe advance had to be carefully made, for the country was rough, wooded, and covered with a dense undergrowth of bushes.
THE COURIER OF THE OZARKSBYRON A. DUNNA little corral for the sheep, and a rough shed for the pony, and the home was complete: far the prettiest home they had ever had.
RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSONYou know MacRae, Lyn; it's mighty poor business for any man to tread on his toes, much less go walking rough-shod all over him.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIRUncle Harry took him for walks and consoled him with rough tenderness, never calling him Black Sheep.
KIPLING STORIES AND POEMS EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW, BOOK IIRUDYARD KIPLINGA dot or two, sometimes only one, sometimes as many as five, are thrown in as a rough way of indicating the features.
CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLYThe scouts were in advance, and had been following the trail through a rough and broken country.
THE COURIER OF THE OZARKSBYRON A. DUNNSYNONYM OF THE DAY
SEPTEMBER 18, 2021
WORDS RELATED TO ROUGH-HEWN
- amateurish
- callow
- coarse
- green
- harsh
- homemade
- homespun
- immature
- impure
- in the rough
- inexpert
- makeshift
- native
- outline
- prentice
- primitive
- raw
- rough
- rough-hewn
- rude
- rudimentary
- rustic
- simple
- sketchy
- thick
- undeveloped
- unfinished
- unformed
- ungraded
- unmatured
- unmilled
- unpolished
- unprepared
- unproficient
- unrefined
- unsorted
- untaught
- untrained
- unworked
- unwrought
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