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roughly

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adv/ˈɹʌf.li/
  1. 1

    In a rough manner; without kindness, softness, or gentleness.

    • They treated the prisoners roughly [...] slashing pitilessly with their whips to drive them as wretched animals before them.
  2. 2

    Unevenly or irregularly.

  3. 3

    Without precision or exactness; imprecisely but close to in quantity or amount; approximately.

    • 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.

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