rough-spoken

[ ruhf-spoh-kuh n ]

/ ˈrʌfˈspoʊ kən /

coarse or vulgar in speech.

Origin of rough-spoken

First recorded in 1625–35

Then Clemantiny went back into the kitchen and cried—good, rough-spoken, tender-hearted Clemantiny sat down and cried.

Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 |Lucy Maud Montgomery
Those dreadful, rough-spoken men, who had come to arrest Dick, would soon be arriving to take her away.

The Scarlet Feather |Houghton Townley
He was a boisterous, rough-spoken mortal, but his heart was big, and set in the right place.

Raw Gold |Bertrand W. Sinclair
Tenderly those rough handed, rough-spoken men raised the death-frozen little ones.

Yorksher Puddin' |John Hartley

One and all they were hard-boiled, used to the open, rough-spoken, and indifferent to Cheyenne's presence.

Partners of Chance |Henry Herbert Knibbs

rough-spoken

rude or uncouth in speech; blunt