Adjective : a roughish sea.    From Dictionary.com. 

The nuts have a light pleasant smell, and an unctuous, bitterish, roughish (not ungrateful) taste.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

"What will your mother say, Ginny, about a pack of roughish lesbians descending on her suburban sanctity?".    From Wordnik.com.  [MORE FROM GINNY BATES: ALLIE AND MARGIE] Reference

A roughish path crossed the waste that was to become something Troy supposed Hilary would think of as a pleasance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tied Up in Tinsel]

Clothed as backwoodsmen are generally clothed, not over elaborately, his garments bore witness to long and roughish wear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon] Reference

I mean, I've a general impression - not young, not old, roughish accent - but I was busy, I didn't pay all that much attention. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twice shy]

"And it will stand a little roughish wear, you think?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch] Reference

I found a roughish looking crew, several of them being.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paddy Finn] Reference

She was a roughish colt, and her ways were roughish too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Weird Tales from Northern Seas] Reference

& Ma. and it is but roughish weather for any one in a tender state.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jane Austen's Letters To Her Sister Cassandra and Others] Reference

It was roughish with occasional white caps, and had a dreary, stormy look.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spread Eagle and Other Stories] Reference

That said, they are lovely roughish wools good for outerwear and accessories.    From Wordnik.com.  [cosymakes] Reference

He was an oldish, roughish-looking man, and had all the appearance of a seaman.    From Wordnik.com.  [My First Voyage to Southern Seas] Reference

He could make pretty good play in thick country, and ride a roughish horse, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields] Reference

It was a roughish collection: the men mostly of the labouring or artisan classes.    From Wordnik.com.  [If Winter Comes] Reference

"A roughish method, but -- aw -- effective," remarked the sportsman to his friend.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rover of the Andes A Tale of Adventure on South America] Reference

I find it a roughish customer, but it finds me a jolly one, an 'not easily put out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shifting Winds A Tough Yarn] Reference

They're tenant-farmers about here mostly, and rather a roughish lot, as you may say.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fenton's Quest] Reference

He was big, roughish, and at times so brusque that he might almost be called brutal.    From Wordnik.com.  [[Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White] Reference

I'll watch him, and we can make a roughish sort of bed with the cushions from the gig.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bristol Bells A Story of the Eighteenth Century] Reference

Formerly a professor's lecture-or recitation-room had been decidedly a roughish place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, Volume I] Reference

He was a low-browed, roughish-looking fellow, and I conceived an immediate dislike for him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice] Reference

When he had seated her comfortably, she gave him a roughish glance, and remarked, playfully.    From Wordnik.com.  [His Heart's Queen] Reference

I'm roughish now, sir; but I was entered at the Middle Temple once, and studied for the bar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories by English Authors: Africa (Selected by Scribners)] Reference

Three fingers will do you good, Mr. Greve, for I see you've had a roughish time this morning.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yellow Streak] Reference

The ship just stayed offshore in the same place all afternoon, buffetted by the roughish sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liberal Burblings] Reference

'It has a roughish end, this life of yours, if you keep clear of the hounds, Fox,' said the Cat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short Studies on Great Subjects] Reference

Hamish Linklater, as a roughish peddler who steals all his wares, supplies a hilarious highlight.    From Wordnik.com.  [BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content] Reference

For myself, I hain't had the cat, but I've seed a man-o'-war sarvice, an 'some roughish treatment too.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea] Reference

= -- Fruiting catkins at length 3-6 inches long; capsule conical, acute, roughish-scurfy, hairy at tip: seeds numerous, hairy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference

I observed that all her crew were armed, and that she had a lieutenant and midshipman in her, both roughish-looking characters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor] Reference

An 'I do t'ink de Lord hab bin bery good to us, for He's gi'n us good massas at last, though we had some roughish ones at fust.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Middy and the Moors An Algerine Story] Reference

These were but roughish spots in a summer that glided by evenly and quickly enough, for the most part, and, at the end, seemed to fly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magnificent Ambersons] Reference

There comes Zayed Khan, Anil & Salman's younger brother who is equally roughish as Salman and has also lost his shares in the property.    From Wordnik.com.  [NAACHGAANA] Reference

It was rather like the feeling of a strong swimmer in a roughish sea, with fitful sunshine and little breakers far out towards the horizon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Privet Hedge] Reference