Thesaurus / gruff
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He’s a gruff, bald, sometimes crude, Jewish guy who names and displays his toupees.
NEW BOOK PUTS KIBOSH ON SENTIMENTALITY OF WWII FILMSKATHI WOLFEAUGUST 27, 2022WASHINGTON BLADEOne can understand why Walter is being played in the way he is—he is your average gruff academic, seemingly detached from the real world around him, and lost in his own head and memories.
‘THE VISITOR’ MAKES A BIZARRE SONG AND DANCE ABOUT ICE CUSTODYTIM TEEMANNOVEMBER 5, 2021THE DAILY BEASTClose, a gruff iconoclast and minimalist who created Photorealist portraits across five decades, died on Thursday in New York at 81.
HOW A TIME ART CRITIC COVERED CHUCK CLOSE ACROSS THE DECADESANDREW R. CHOWAUGUST 20, 2021TIMELindell 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 POSTAs they were passing a place where the bushes grew thickly by the side of the road, they received a gruff command to halt.
THE COURIER OF THE OZARKSBYRON A. DUNNThe fact was that Benny himself did not know why he liked this stranger who was so gruff at times and so pleasant at others.
THE BOX-CAR CHILDRENGERTRUDE CHANDLER WARNEREven the gruff, grumpy, unsociable rhinoceros amiably allowed him to stroke its head with his trunk.
THE FLOATING LIGHT OF THE GOODWIN SANDSR.M. BALLANTYNEHe 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.
CONFESSIONS OF A THUGPHILIP MEADOWS TAYLORHaving jumped about David noisily, but without offering violence, they passed on in obedience to a gruff command.
GOLD-SEEKING ON THE DALTON TRAILARTHUR R. THOMPSONWORDS RELATED TO GRUFF
- base
- blunt
- brusque
- cantankerous
- cloddish
- clodhopping
- crabbed
- crude
- crusty
- curt
- cussed
- discourteous
- dour
- grouchy
- gruff
- grumpy
- harsh
- ill-tempered
- impolite
- loutish
- lowbred
- mean
- miserly
- morose
- oafish
- ornery
- rude
- rustic
- snippy
- sullen
- surly
- touchy
- ugly
- uncivil
- uncivilized
- uncultured
- unmannerly
- unneighborly
- unpolished
- unsociable
- vulgar
- base
- bawdy
- blue
- boorish
- brutish
- cheap
- common
- crass
- crude
- dirty
- down and dirty
- earthy
- filthy
- foul
- foul-mouthed
- gross
- gruff
- immodest
- impolite
- improper
- impure
- incult
- indelicate
- inelegant
- loutish
- low
- lowbred
- mean
- nasty
- obscene
- off-color
- offensive
- raffish
- raunchy
- raw
- ribald
- rough
- roughneck
- rude
- scatological
- smutty
- tacky
- uncivil
- uncouth
- uncultivated
- uncultured
- unrefined
- vulgar
- vulgarian
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