rough-and-ready
Example Sentences
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To call this the rough-and-ready style of a workshop would not do as an excuse: A workshop requires workmanship.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
The rough-and-ready stemmed projectile points, made from whatever rocks were on hand, differ significantly from so-called Clovis points.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 22, 2022
According to an annual survey of new vehicle owners from the consumer-research firm Strategic Vision, the vast majority almost never employ their rough-and-ready vehicles for towing or off-roading.
From Slate • Feb. 2, 2022
The City of Paris department store, begun in the rough-and-ready 1850s as S. Lazard and Company, for Solomon Lazard.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2021
The transition from the chaotic, individualistic, rough-and-ready nature of 1920s jazz to a more streamlined form of swing in the 1930s was mirrored in other musical genres.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
