roughly made

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There are signs of permanency everywhere in the camps: Shacks selling basic supplies; piles of roughly made red bricks waiting to be to be used to build more sturdy structures.

From BBC • Aug. 11, 2014

But his cousin had buried her; near the guava tree there was a slight elevation of earth and a cross roughly made from two branches.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

There was a cooking fire, the flames represented by shards of red glass; a small, roughly made bench; and assorted tools, gourds, and shells.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

He procured an elegant apparatus for the purpose, in which all the little machines that I had roughly made for myself were neatly formed by instrument-makers.

From Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 1 of 2] With His Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical by Franklin, Benjamin

They are roughly made and the fact that they are double permits the unfinished edges to be turned under and sewed down with coarse red cotton twine.

From Philippine Mats Philippine Craftsman Reprint Series No. 1 by Miller, Hugo H.