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gratingly

ADVERB
harshly
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STRONGEST


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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

I can still hum parts of the gratingly cheery song from the parade held in Mickey’s honor.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2024

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




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