Meanings of more roughness in English

He affected more roughness than he felt, as a man's way is.

Perhaps in the preliminary breaking in of the pony there is more roughness than is quite necessary.

They have already been handled with much more roughness than they had time to show to me.

Clinical significance: Nickel-titanium and beta-titanium wires show more roughness and resultant higher friction levels after use in the oral cavity.

Rake stopped, breathless in his rhetoric, which contained more truth in it, as also more roughness, than most rhetoric does.

'Can't you tell me?' Richard said, with more roughness than he intended.

"Retire, Father Vincent," said the men around the stool, with more roughness than they would have shown to a favorite confessor of D'Aulnay's.