As the players were leaving the field, they were verbally abused by a section of the crowd, who believed the play had been unnecessarily rough.

"It seems to me, Steve, you're using an approach that is unnecessarily rough."

Under the circumstances, the remark was as unnecessarily rough as a bouncer at a tea party.

Others felt that the police officers were unnecessarily rough.

The couple cannot shake the feeling that the agent was unnecessarily rough, even if the law was on her side.

They chained us to the wall; our jailer, who did it, being unnecessarily rough with us.

But one demonstrator said that the police had been unnecessarily rough.

Witnesses said the police were unnecessarily rough with an elderly man.

It looked to the bleachers as if Ellis had been unnecessarily rough, and they hissed and stormed disapproval.

Though his grasping paws were unnecessarily rough, Satsuki bore it all cheerfully.