unsmooth

1. not comparableNot smooth; rough.

   G. Fletcher How may weak mortal ever hope to file His unsmooth tongue, and his deprostrate style?

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   In contrast, treatment with the uncleavable Alexa-labelled Ub-3A-G75A/G76A–CPP Tat resulted in an unsmooth and heterogeneous pattern of fluorescence in the cells, with intense staining of cytoplasmic components and nucleoli.

   2009 March 5, Kohsuke Inomata et al., “High-resolution multi-dimensional NMR spectroscopy of proteins in human cells”, in Nature, volume 458, number 7234, →DOI

present singular third person unsmooths · participle present unsmoothing · participle past unsmoothed · past unsmoothed

1. transitiveTo make no longer smooth; to roughen or furrow.

   Her face gathers, furrows, glooms; arching eyebrows wrinkle into horizontals, and a tinge of bitterness unsmooths the cheek and robs the lip of sweetened grace. She is evidently perturbed.

   1882, W. Marshall, Strange Chapman, volume 2, page 170