Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not smooth; not even; rough.
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- adjective Not
smooth ;rough .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having or caused by an irregular surface
Etymologies
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Examples
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I would also caution you about having a bow set too light because if it is too light you may end up drawing the bow back too fast causing an unsmooth jerking action in your draw exspecially when you reach full draw.
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I would also caution you about having a bow set too light because if it is too light you may end up drawing the bow back too fast causing an unsmooth jerking action in your draw exspecially when you reach full draw.
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And when Emily's editor friend Thomas Wentworth Higginson felt that her work was much too chaotic and unsmooth, Mabel sang the poems out loud so that Higginson could comprehend their melody.
Lyndall Gordon's "Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson & Her Family's Feuds" 2010
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''I imagine cradling it in my arms, protecting it from unsmooth roads.''
Yesterday's gushy, nauseating, sycophantic hero worship is now inoperative. CC 2009
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After the jump, today’s BWE Alarm Clock, where we learn a very special lesson between “amazing” smooth and “terrible” smooth unsmooth?
BWE Alarm Clock for Friday, February 22 | Best Week Ever 2008
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Against SADDAM!!! hahahahha … two birds with one stone … see how unsmooth you are hehehe .. and you wonder why we think you are dumb.
Think Progress » Breaking: Terrorist Zarqawi Killed in Iraq Air Strikes 2006
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Gear-Hindemarsh is the gold standard for that sort of thing, but it has some problems, especially when you give the system a kick, like turning the lights on or off, or otherwise messing with the boundary conditions in an unsmooth way.
The Right Formula James Killus 2007
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Gear-Hindemarsh is the gold standard for that sort of thing, but it has some problems, especially when you give the system a kick, like turning the lights on or off, or otherwise messing with the boundary conditions in an unsmooth way.
Archive 2007-11-01 James Killus 2007
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I had just started to 'talk to' Omar when Jamie, who had always been super popular which didn't mean anything to me by the time I was a senior, thank goodness, but still asked me out in the most unsmooth way possible.
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I had just started to 'talk to' Omar when Jamie, who had always been super popular which didn't mean anything to me by the time I was a senior, thank goodness, but still asked me out in the most unsmooth way possible.
E. Lockhart's Blog: 2005
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