roughness
Example Sentences
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A theatrical autobiography that’s honest can’t be neat, because some roughnesses refuse to be smoothed.
From New York Times • Oct. 16, 2022
In actual finish, the facsimiles are smooth; although they catch and reflect light with the warm lustre of oil paints or the glitter of watercolors they do not reproduce roughnesses of brushwork.
From Time Magazine Archive
Paint my picture truly like me; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me.
From Time Magazine Archive
But such roughnesses leave tiny shadows against each other; for the eye, this is the only evidence of their presence.
From Time Magazine Archive
On rushes the man heedless of the excoriating roughnesses of the ground beneath his bare and battered feet.
From In the Brooding Wild by Cullum, Ridgwell
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