roughly
/ˈɹʌf.li/ adverb A2- In a rough manner; without kindness, softness, or gentleness.
- Unevenly or irregularly.
- Without precision or exactness; imprecisely but close to in quantity or amount; approximately.
Comparative roughlier · Superlative roughliest
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I raised it, and this was what I read, roughly scrawled in pencil: “Dr.
“Speak roughly to your little boy,
“I could tell you roughly by the pay-list,” the manager answered.
So your grave, middle-aged family practitioner vanishes into thin air, my dear Watson, and there emerges a young fellow under thirty, amiable, unambitious, absent-minded, and the possessor of a favourite dog, which I should describe roughly as being larger than a terrier and smaller than a mastiff.”
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