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Sentence example with the word 'gruff'
gruff
abrupt, biting, cantankerous, cracked, deep, grumpish, ill-natured, querulous, saturnine, squawking, testy
Definition
adj.
brusque and surly and forbidding
Last update: September 18, 2016
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His
gruff
manners gives a very bad impression. .
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Her
gruff
voice is not pleasant.
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"Mountain wave"the boy said, in a
gruff
voice.
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I am all right," said
gruff
Old Orlick."
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A
gruff
squire on horseback with shiny topboots.
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"What's all this row," came a
gruff
voice.
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His voice was
gruff
, and his brows were drawn together in a frown... and yet the blue eyes twinkled with humor.
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Said the big Captain Buzzub in a
gruff
voice: "Well, little one, who may you be."
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The Rajput's
gruff
throat thrilled with a new emotion.
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He is a
gruff
sort of chap, but true blue at bottom.
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It is so much easier to be pleasant than sour and
gruff
.
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