Thesaurus / roughs
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synonyms for roughs
- account
- blueprint
- cartoon
- chart
- copy
- depiction
- description
- illustration
- likeness
- painting
- picture
- piece
- portrayal
- summary
- version
- vignette
- adumbration
- compendium
- configuration
- delineation
- design
- diagram
- digest
- doodle
- draft
- figuration
- figure
- form
- monograph
- plan
- report
- representation
- rough
- shape
- skeleton
- survey
- syllabus
- aperçu
- précis
- thug
- rough
- hooligan
- ruffian
- bully
- roughneck
- goon
- punk
- brute
- gangster
- villain
- hoodlum
- criminal
- rowdy
- hood
- bruiser
- ruffian
- bully
- roughneck
- goon
- hooligan
- punk
- brute
- mug
- gangster
- villain
- hoodlum
- thug
- rough
- criminal
- rowdy
- hood
- bruiser
- harm
- crash
- catastrophe
- emergency
- failure
- fiasco
- holocaust
- mishap
- flood
- calamity
- debacle
- setback
- defeat
- hazard
- woe
- tragedy
- collapse
- ruination
- undoing
- misadventure
- collision
- stroke
- slip
- affliction
- rough
- casualty
- blow
- misfortune
- ruin
- bust
- depression
- blight
- exigency
- bale
- bane
- cataclysm
- fall
- mischance
- reverse
- flop
- upset
- grief
- rock
- adversity
- act of God
- bad luck
- bad news
- hot water
- washout
- fell stroke
- hard luck
- ill luck
- the worst
- outline
- prepare
- devise
- design
- forge
- draw up
- manufacture
- delineate
- sketch
- compose
- concoct
- skeleton
- form
- fabricate
- make
- contrive
- draw
- invent
- project
- characterize
- shape
- fashion
- plan
- rough
- adumbrate
- frame
- block out
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How to use roughs in a sentence
The nuns should have been pleased with such a champion to deliver them, surrounded as they were by a company of roughs.
RULE OF THE MONKGIUSEPPE GARIBALDIHe might have had some of his roughs run Delray off while those wireless instruments were bein' smashed.
MOTOR MATT'S DARING, OR, TRUE TO HIS FRIENDSSTANLEY R. MATTHEWSThey found the room already occupied by some six or eight street roughs, evidently waiting for what might transpire.
THE COLLEGE, THE MARKET, AND THE COURTCAROLINE H. DALLNot long after, the vigilance committee hanged four men, and roughs and law-breakers left town for the mines.
STORIES OF CALIFORNIAELLA M. SEXTONAs the roughs began to pile out of the darkened saloon, the false detective gave vent to a nervous laugh.
SHADOW, THE MYSTERIOUS DETECTIVEPOLICE CAPTAIN HOWARDSeveral thousand loafers and roughs discovered asserting right of free speech, free meeting and free procession.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOL. 93, OCTOBER 29, 1887VARIOUSThe younger men got out into the crowd through Westminster Hall, and were pushed about among the roughs for an hour or so.
PHINEAS FINNANTHONY TROLLOPEAnd if those three roughs come playing their jokes around our camp we'll try and speak decently with them first.
THE BOY SCOUTS' FIRST CAMP FIREHERBERT CARTERAs the Latin School grew weak, the roughs and young blackguards grew strong.
THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMSHENRY ADAMSWhen I get a crowd of roughs on the street I generally teach from Luke.
PLEASURE & PROFIT IN BIBLE STUDYDWIGHT MOODY