overrough
adjEtymology From over- + rough.
1
Excessively rough.
- 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.1878, A Modern Symposium: Subjects: The Soul and Future Life, page 140:
- 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.2015, Fredson Thayer Bowers, Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy, 1587-1642, page 231:
- Derived terms
- overroughly