overrough
English
Etymology
over- + rough
Adjective
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.
- 1878, A Modern Symposium: Subjects: The Soul and Future Life (page 140)