overrough
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]overrough
- Excessively rough.
- 1878, A Modern Symposium: Subjects: The Soul and Future Life, page 140:
- And as many of us want the shaking now badly enough, I can thank him for it, although it is administered by an overrough and contemptuous hand.
- 2015, Fredson Thayer Bowers, Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy, 1587-1642, page 231:
- Columbo is not wholly an evil but more an overrough and cruel man who lacks entirely the finer sensibilities which would have released Rosaura from her painful contract.