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  • adj.bad-tempered, rude
  • adj.rasping in sound

synonyms for gruff

  • blunt
  • boisterous
  • brusque
  • crusty
  • dour
  • grumpy
  • nasty
  • offhand
  • surly
  • abrupt
  • bearish
  • boorish
  • churlish
  • crabbed
  • crabby
  • crude
  • curt
  • discourteous
  • fierce
  • grouchy
  • ill-natured
  • impolite
  • morose
  • rough
  • saturnine
  • short
  • snappy
  • snippy
  • sour
  • sullen
  • truculent
  • uncivil
  • ungracious
  • unmannerly
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antonyms for gruff

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  • cheerful
  • happy
  • kind
  • nice
  • pleasant
  • polite
  • tactful
  • even-tempered
  • soft
  • sweet
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How to use gruff in a sentence

Close, a gruff iconoclast and minimalist who created Photorealist portraits across five decades, died on Thursday in New York at 81.
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Lindell appears in those ads to hype his pillows with Billy Mays levels of gruff enthusiasm.
MIKE LINDELL’S ‘FRAUD’ ALLEGATIONS ARE EVEN MORE RIDICULOUS THAN YOU MIGHT THINKPHILIP BUMPJUNE 4, 2021WASHINGTON POST
As they were passing a place where the bushes grew thickly by the side of the road, they received a gruff command to halt.
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The fact was that Benny himself did not know why he liked this stranger who was so gruff at times and so pleasant at others.
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Even the gruff, grumpy, unsociable rhinoceros amiably allowed him to stroke its head with his trunk.
THE FLOATING LIGHT OF THE GOODWIN SANDSR.M. BALLANTYNE
He spoke angrily, and no longer in a low tone, but gruff and loud enough to be heard some distance away.
THE RIVAL CAMPERSRUEL PERLEY SMITH
"Salam Aliekoom," said a gruff voice, as a man with Peer Khan entered the tent.
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Having jumped about David noisily, but without offering violence, they passed on in obedience to a gruff command.
GOLD-SEEKING ON THE DALTON TRAILARTHUR R. THOMPSON
And the gruff voice of the drayman, growing impatient in the antechamber: "Come, come, make haste."
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"You may be thankful if you don't get those two young alligators in the other tank," said a gruff-voiced adjutant.
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