rough edges
If something such as a product, a piece of work or a performance has rough edges, some parts of it could be improved:
He's a great player, but his game still has a few rough edges.
If a person has rough edges, they do not always behave well and politely:
Age and experience have softened his rough edges (= have made him a more polite or gentle person).
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Quite good, or not very good
- acceptable
- adequate
- agreeable
- all very well idiom
- all very well/fine/good idiom
- average
- cut
- fair
- half decent
- iffy
- impure
- indifferent
- kind
- pass
- patchy
- reasonable
- refined
- rose
- satisfactory
- second best idiom
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