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Definition of Roughly

Roughly

  1. In a rough manner; unevenly; harshly; rudely; severely; austerely.

Roughly Quotations

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
Victor Hugo

If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.
James Lovelock

Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.
Doug Coupland

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
William Ralph Inge

My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's just a matter of joining the dots.
Terry Pratchett
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Roughly Translations

roughly in French is bourru
roughly in Italian is valutato, zotico
roughly in Latin is inter
roughly in Spanish is bruscamente, grosero, proximamente

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