• n.
    ⦿harsh or severe speech or behavior
    lexical concept
  • men associate the roughness of nonstandard working-class speech with masculinity
  • the roughness of her voice was a signal to keep quiet

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized senseenl:roughness
wn:interlingual indexili:i37378

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelroughness