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gruffness

NOUN
  1. an abrupt discourteous manner
  2. a throaty harshness

How To Use gruffness In A Sentence

  • The gruffness took on a softer tone, sounding almost sympathetic.
  • (On this gruffness, Brooks waxes: "He's managed to preserve the patois of Chicago, the earthy freneticism of his Augie March upbringing.") John Wellington Ennis: How Rahm Bombed
  • He has settled into a routine of hard-drinking bachelor gruffness.
  • It is an experience that concerns itself almost exclusively with tone, with the use of darkness and light, the gruffness of man with the voluptuous beauty of woman.
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