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Roughhewn

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Rough´hewn`
a.1.Hewn coarsely without smoothing; unfinished; not polished.
2.Of coarse manners; rude; uncultivated; rough-grained.
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Adj.1.roughhewn - of stone or timber; shaped roughly without finishing
unfinished - not brought to the desired final state


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No editor would have approved the roughhewn draft of Atlas Shrugged; all would have pleaded for excisions.
The sight of scores of roughhewn men simultaneously bowing their bodies in prayer strikes him as "beautiful," but his poet's eye notices that during the pre-prayer ritual, the men squat to pee, "which makes it quite a private act, though difficult with those flowing native clothes; then washing hands, feet, nose, ears, and mouth .
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