gratingly

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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

The best scenes depend heavily on Pascal and Cage’s sense of comic timing and their ability to deliver dialogue that’s genre-savvy without sounding gratingly Whedonesque.

From The Verge • Mar. 15, 2022

Despite often being lumped together these days in what gratingly gets called the “wellness sector,” psychotherapy and Buddhist meditation might be seen as almost opposite approaches to the search for peace of mind.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2022

“Well, that’s gratingly vague. You gonna help me with this mural or not?”

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older