Definitions
(of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Word origin
From rough + -ly.
Used in a sentence
“They treated the prisoners roughly [...] slashing pitilessly with their whips to drive them as wretched animals before them.”
“Satanism can be divided, roughly, into two branches: the Luciferians and the Palladists.”
“Of the roughly 400 emerging infectious diseases that have been identified since 1940, more than 60% are zoonotic: ie they came from animals. Throughout history this has been common.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
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