gratingly
Example Sentences
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The brothers staunchly disagree with the maxim that puns are the lowest form of humor, and their works are almost universally branded with gratingly unfunny names.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Their second EP, Beautiful Chaos, peaked at number two in the US album charts, thanks to the gratingly brilliant lead single, Gnarly, and the Charli XCX-penned follow-up, Gabriella.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025
It's an audio format, so the listener gets to hear his father talk about all this, and what's striking is how gratingly arrogant his dad is.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2025
Granted, “Out of Time’s” earworm “Shiny Happy People” is gratingly banal, but the album also features spoken-word passages, brooding bass lines and ghostly steel-guitar drone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024
It had curled gratingly around the end of the truck and, still spinning and sliding, was about to collide with me again.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
