Rough-cut in a sentence as an adjective

Even if you are only browsing rough-cut coals, perhaps with the right inclinations you may find diamonds. Knowledge and its accumulation are not the goal, they are tools to help you along the way.

Better to take a more stateless / path-independent approach and just find the new equilibrium, for the first rough-cut analysis. From those perspectives, higher Gini coefficient clearly means lower median, etc.

As a counter-example, a master carpenter need not precisely measure every single rough-cut with a machinist's micrometer. Sometimes bonking the knee with a gizmo is just as good as bonking the knee with your hand, especially if you've spent the past 30 years bonking knees for a living.

Rough-cut definitions

adjective

lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich"

See also: coarse common uncouth vulgar

adjective

of stone or timber; shaped roughly without finishing

See also: roughhewn