gruffness
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“After all these years of gruffness … I’ve changed,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2025
Both Brendan Gleeson and Barry Keoghan from “Banshees” ought to make the cut: It’s Gleeson’s gruffness that sets the plot in motion, and Keoghan’s tragic fool that makes you laugh, then weep.
From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2023
Valentina's gruffness is a rough mosaic combining her wish to have her orders followed and her desire to be left alone.
From Salon • Dec. 4, 2022
I imagine Marshall peering down at counsel and interjecting, with his trademark gruffness: “You have got to be kidding me.”
From Washington Post • Oct. 25, 2022
"You've got to pull yourself together," he said with soothing gruffness.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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