- superlative of rough.
roughest
Example Sentences
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"They're the roughest people you'll ever meet," Trump told the New York Post on Thursday.
From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026
Congolese mining towns tend to be porous and migrant-heavy, rough, difficult places to live in some of the country’s roughest, most difficult areas, where there is plenty of reason to distrust outsiders.
From Slate • Jun. 9, 2026
But belief in a vision is one thing; living through the roughest stretches of the transformation is another.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026
“It’s the roughest patch I’ve ever had,” said Foreman, who has been buying toy brands since the early 1990s and went through a bankruptcy-court reorganization of debt last year and Covid-related supply bottlenecks before that.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025
Like Pap used to say, “Sometimes a good lie can smooth the roughest road for folk.”
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
