| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Consisting of or covered with large particles: grainy, granular, gritty, rough. See SMOOTH. 2. Lacking in delicacy or refinement: barbarian, barbaric, boorish, churlish, crass, crude, gross, ill-bred, indelicate, philistine, rough, rude, tasteless, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar. See COURTESY, SMOOTH. 3. Offensive to accepted standards of decency: barnyard, bawdy, broad, dirty, Fescennine, filthy, foul, gross, lewd, nasty, obscene, profane, ribald, scatologic, scatological, scurrilous, smutty, vulgar. Slang : raunchy. See DECENT. 4. Having a surface that is not smooth: cragged, craggy, harsh, ironbound, jagged, ragged, rough, rugged, scabrous, uneven. See SMOOTH.
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