gruff
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Stout and slightly gruff, Dipper has a digital face that can approximate more than 40 expressions.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026
The call-in, which lasted four hours and a half hours, has also been used to humanize a leader better known in the West for his gruff outbursts and cold demeanor.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
Mr. Nakadai played the dogged cop assisting Mifune’s gruff industrialist in foiling a kidnapper’s plot.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025
In the Norwegian author Jon Fosse’s “Vaim,” translated by Damion Searls, the men are no less gruff than those of Mr. Gospodinov’s youth.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
Even when I was a child and he was a scary figure on Mom’s computer monitor with a gruff voice and a bushy mustache.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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