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rough-spoken

/ruhf-spoh-kuhn/US // ˈrʌfˈspoʊ kən //

粗话连篇,粗声粗气,粗声粗气的,粗声细语

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : coarse or vulgar in speech.

Examples

  • Scalise never would have spoken to EURO had Duke been there in person.

  • Terrorism is bad news anywhere, but especially rough on Odessa, where the city motto seems to be “make love, not war.”

  • The kids had a gift for him too, a tee shirt with ‘Baseball Spoken Here’ stenciled across the front.

  • Over dinner, the Knight had mentioned that Scalise had spoken before the EURO event.

  • Gurley was gunned down on Nov. 20, when a pair of cops was patrolling the rough housing project.

  • Of course the expression of this value is modified and characterized by the nature of the thing spoken of.

  • On the morning after Ramona's disappearance, words had been spoken by each which neither would ever forget.

  • And for fear of being ill spoken of weep bitterly for a day, and then comfort thyself in thy sadness.

  • She was not accustomed to an outward and spoken expression of affection, either in herself or in others.

  • Mrs. Vivian had hardly spoken when the sharp little vibration of her door-bell was heard in the hall.