How To Use Gruffness In A Sentence

• The gruffness took on a softer tone, sounding almost sympathetic.
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• (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
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• He has settled into a routine of hard-drinking bachelor gruffness.
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• 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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