'roughly put' is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to indicate that a description of something is succinct and simplified. For example: "The law, roughly put, is that everyone has the right to vote."
Roughly put, the analysis involves looking at a student's prior performance, then using that to project their future test scores.
British newspapers varied widely on their estimates of the company's value, though they roughly put it at several billion dollars.
These materials are roughly put together into machinelike configurations that look as though they would simulate copulation and masturbation if turned on.
During her first break home over Christmas, I showed it to her, very roughly put together, and I gave her the opportunity to opt out.
Others argued that India's bureaucracy merely reflected a culture conditioned by a fatalism reflected in the Hindi expression "sab ho jayega," or, roughly put, "in the end, all will be done".
Roughly put, the Jackson movement was to American politics in the 1820s and '30s what rock 'n' roll was to American culture in the 1950s and '60s: young, raw, unsettling.
Egoyan made his first film, Next of Kin, in 1984, when he was 24 – "I was very driven" – which roughly puts him in the same generation as Jim Jarmusch, Todd Haynes and the Coens.
1. Chop cooked beets roughly, and put into a blender with ginger, hot broth and lemon juice.
Investors sold roughly 1,400 put options at the February $230 strike for an average premium of $2.08 apiece.
The contract was worth roughly $50,000 and put Opera on the road to finding more corporate clients.
By comparison, roughly 13,600 put contracts are open at the in-the-money 15 strike for the same time frame.
