rough diamond
noun
Roget 948:
good man,
honest man,
worthy.
good woman,
perfect lady,
Madonna.
model,
paragon
etc.
(perfection)
650;
good example;
hero,
heroine,
demigod,
seraph,
angel;
innocent
etc.
946;
saint
etc.
(piety)
987;
benefactor
etc.
912;
philanthropist
etc.
910;
Aristides†;
noble liver†,
pattern.
brick [Slang],
trump [Slang],
gem,
jewel,
good fellow,
prince,
diamond in the rough,
rough diamond,
ugly duckling†.
salt of the earth;
one in ten thousand;
one in a million;
a gentleman and a scholar;
pillar of society,
pillar of the community,
a man among men.
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Roget 703:
artlessness
etc.
adj.;
nature,
simplicity;
innocence
etc.
946;
bonhomie,
naivete,
abandon,
candor,
sincerity;
singleness of purpose,
singleness of heart;
honesty
etc.
939;
plain speaking;
epanchement [Fr.].
rough diamond,
matter of fact man;
le palais de verite [Fr.];
enfant terrible [Fr.].
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Roget 876:
commonalty,
democracy;
obscurity;
low condition,
low life,
low society,
low company;
bourgeoisie;
mass of the people,
mass of society;
Brown Jones and Robinson;
lower classes,
humbler classes,
humbler orders;
vulgar herd,
common herd;
rank and file,
hoc genus omne [Lat.];
the many,
the general,
the crowd,
the people,
the populace,
the multitude,
the million,
the masses,
the mobility,
the peasantry;
king Mob;
proletariat;
fruges consumere nati [Lat.],
demos,
hoi polloi [Gr.],
great unwashed;
man in the street.
mob;
rabble,
rabble rout;
chaff,
rout,
horde,
canaille;
scum of the people,
residuum of the people,
dregs of the people,
dregs of society;
swinish multitude,
foex populi†;
trash;
profanum vulgus [Lat.],
ignobile vulgus [Lat.];
vermin,
riffraff,
ragtag and bobtail;
small fry.
commoner,
one of the people,
democrat,
plebeian,
republican,
proletary†,
proletaire†,
roturier†,
Mr.
Snooks,
bourgeois,
epicier [Fr.],
Philistine,
cockney;
grisette†,
demimonde.
peasant,
countryman,
boor,
carle†,
churl;
villain,
villein;
terrae filius [Lat.],
son of the land;
serf,
kern†,
tyke,
tike,
chuff†,
ryot†,
fellah;
longshoreman;
swain,
clown,
hind;
clod,
clodhopper;
hobnail,
yokel,
bog-trotter,
bumpkin;
plowman,
plowboy†;
rustic,
hayseed [Slang],
lunkhead [U.S.],
chaw-bacon [Slang],
tiller of the soil;
hewers of wood and drawers of water,
groundling†;
gaffer,
loon,
put,
cub,
Tony Lumpkin†,
looby†,
rube [U.S.],
lout,
underling;
gamin;
rough;
pot-wallopper†,
slubberdegullion†;
vulgar fellow,
low fellow;
cad,
curmudgeon.
upstart,
parvenu,
skipjack†;
nobody,
nobody one knows;
hesterni quirites [Lat.],
pessoribus orti [Lat.];
bourgeois gentilhomme [Fr.],
novus homo [Lat.],
snob,
gent,
mushroom,
no one knows who,
adventurer;
man of straw.
beggar,
gaberlunzie†,
muckworm†,
mudlark†,
sans culotte,
raff†,
tatterdemalion,
caitiff,
ragamuffin,
Pariah,
outcast of society,
tramp,
vagabond,
bezonian†,
panhandler [Slang],
sundowner†,
chiffonnier,
Cinderella,
cinderwench†,
scrub,
jade;
gossoon†.
Goth,
Vandal,
Hottentot,
Zulu,
savage,
barbarian,
Yahoo;
unlicked cub†,
rough diamond†.
barbarousness,
barbarism;
boeotia.
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Roget 851:
vulgarity,
vulgarism;
barbarism,
Vandalism,
Gothicism†;
mauvis gout [Fr.],
bad taste;
gaucherie,
awkwardness,
want of tact;
ill-breeding
etc.
(discourtesy)
895.
courseness
etc.
adj.†;
indecorum,
misbehavior.
lowness,
homeliness;
low life,
mauvais ton [Fr.],
rusticity;
boorishness
etc.
adj.;
brutality;
rowdyism,
blackguardism†;
ribaldry;
slang
etc.
(neology)
563.
bad joke,
mauvais plaisanterie [Fr.].
[Excess of ornament]
gaudiness,
tawdriness;
false ornament;
finery,
frippery,
trickery,
tinsel,
gewgaw,
clinquant†;
baroque,
rococo.
rough diamond,
tomboy,
hoyden,
cub,
unlicked cub†;
clown
etc.
(commonalty)
876;
Goth,
Vandal,
Boeotian;
snob,
cad,
gent;
parvenu
etc.
876;
frump,
dowdy;
slattern
etc.
653.
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