rough edges

plural noun

: things that need to be improved or finished

The project still has a few rough edges.

Examples of rough edges in a Sentence

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But nostalgia, as the saying goes, files rough edges off the good old days. —Danyel Smith, Essence, 16 Oct. 2024

There is a dreary sameness to so much of modern culture, rough edges smoothed into comfortable averages by the power of market research and algorithms. —Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 11 Oct. 2024

What Walz did do tonight is lock in from the jump as the Midwestern everyman and smoothed off his own crowd-pleasing rough edges at the cost of being on defense more than offense. —Ted Johnson, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2024

This is certainly possible, but there are some rough edges that need to be ironed out first. —Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024