rough-spoken

To old-guard, Protestant Cincinnati, Barney Kroger, for all his money, was still a rough-spoken farm boy who got his start selling cabbages from a horse-drawn cart.

The Cincinnati Grocer's Kid Stephen Birmingham 2010

Both are high-school-dropout country boys with no prospects, brought up to hard work and privation, both rough-mannered, rough-spoken, inured to the stoic life.

In Rough Country Oates, Joyce Carol 2008

Emerging on the other side, he passed along the line of candidates and their friends, who were standing beneath an awning, paused briefly to talk to Palicanus—the rough-spoken former tribune was standing for a praetorship—and then exited without giving Hortensius or Metellus a second glance.

Imperium Robert Harris 2006

Emerging on the other side, he passed along the line of candidates and their friends, who were standing beneath an awning, paused briefly to talk to Palicanus—the rough-spoken former tribune was standing for a praetorship—and then exited without giving Hortensius or Metellus a second glance.

Imperium Robert Harris 2006

"If I must choose one or the other, I prefer a rough-spoken soldier to a smooth-spoken courtier."

Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

"If I must choose one or the other, I prefer a rough-spoken soldier to a smooth-spoken courtier."

Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

Surely her father was not a rough-spoken man like this!

Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls Margaret Bruce Clarke

Who was the rough-spoken man who had come to his rescue by perhaps dealing the detective a death-blow?

Five Thousand Dollars Reward A. Frank [pseud.] Pinkerton

Those dreadful, rough-spoken men, who had come to arrest

The Scarlet Feather Houghton Townley

But some of the Senators, who liked and pitied the rough-spoken, but warm-hearted and honest old man, persuaded

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 Various