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growling
adjective as in guttural
adjective as in hoarse
adjective as in husky
adjective as in peevish
Weak matches
- acrimonious
- angry
- bad-tempered
- cantankerous
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- childish
- churlish
- complaining
- crabbed
- cranky
- critical
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cussed
- fault-finding
- fractious
- fretful
- fretting
- grouchy
- grousing
- grumpy
- huffy
- ill-natured
- mean
- morose
- obstinate
- ogre
- ornery
- out-of-sorts
- pertinacious
- petulant
- querulous
- short-tempered
- snappy
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tetchy
- touchy
- ugly
- waspish
- waspy
- whining
Example Sentences
Pig [growling sotto voce behind his hand, mock-furtive as a Disneyland Foxy Loxy]: Take 35 percent off the top and split!
Following their growling anthem “No Church in the Wild,” the lights went down.
Soon a motor boat with more men in black appeared, its engine growling ominously as it sped over the water.
Thor, to the young Byatt, “was the classroom bully raised to the scale of growling thunder and whipping rain.”
The governor and the dog were out for an early morning jog when a coyote suddenly appeared, growling at Rory.
Growling horribly, the enraged brute seized poor Pearson and shook him as a terrier dog shakes a rat.
Now it seemed to crouch as though ready to spring, and I could hear the savage growling as of some beast of prey.
Long before we got there the deep-throated thunder was growling over us, and the clouds spat occasional flurries of rain.
McGinty was growling, while Joe was trying to break away without losing an ear.
Rushing back, she almost carried Louise (while the growling continued), and they were soon up the hill.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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