gratingly

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adv sternly

adverb. sternly

"annoying, irritating," 1560s, figurative use of present participle adjective from grate (v.).

"We are better off sometimes if we don't get all that belongs to us," said John gratingly.

Bear Cat Stacy's voice as he answered was gratingly hard and his eyes were unyielding.

Slowly, gratingly, the golem turned and lumbered out of the cave, clumsy and ponderous.

But now he began to make such a strange crowing noise, just like a chair drawn heavily and gratingly along a kitchen-floor!

"Kill 'em both with one stone, then," wheezed the turnkey, gratingly throwing open the door of the cell.

Lift the latch quietly, though, for there is grief in the room, and noise comes harshly and gratingly upon a sorrowing ear.