gruff
Example Sentences
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The title track is both complex and hummable, and it features contrasting solos from Mr. Rogers, who is pointed and gruff, and Mr. Finlayson, who is lithe and bright.
Carpenter is a gruff but approachable 77 these days, his career as a film director receding in the rearview.
From Los Angeles Times
His “gruff” father had little time for such infantilizing obeisance and would resist as best he could.
Unlike the gruff, barky impressions lots of comedians were doing at the time, Johnson’s had a flow.
In a new role as JV defensive coordinator, he deployed his gruff but humor-infused brand of coaching while welcoming a group of incoming ninth-graders to the program.
From Los Angeles Times
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