- superlative of rough.
roughest
Example Sentences
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"They're the roughest people you'll ever meet," Trump told the New York Post on Thursday.
From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026
Congolese mining towns tend to be porous and migrant-heavy, rough, difficult places to live in some of the country’s roughest, most difficult areas, where there is plenty of reason to distrust outsiders.
From Slate • Jun. 9, 2026
“It’s the roughest patch I’ve ever had,” said Foreman, who has been buying toy brands since the early 1990s and went through a bankruptcy-court reorganization of debt last year and Covid-related supply bottlenecks before that.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025
However these Games could be the roughest yet for Naeher and the U.S. given the depth and strength of the tournament field and the lackluster performance of the American team of late.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2024
He was courteous, respectful and soft-spoken to elders, but on the playground he chose to play the roughest games.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
