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raspingly

ADVERB
  1. in a harsh and grating manner
    her voice fell gratingly on our ears

How To Use raspingly In A Sentence

  • She breathed raspingly, and when she spoke her voice was so faint, Eleanor had to bend right over the bed. THE GOLDEN LION
  • With elegance so well attended to by Genaux and Tarver, it fell to the two spoiled sisters, Clorinda and Tisbe and (in this opera) their bumbling and graspingly nasty father, Don Magnifico, to supply the buffoonery. In performance: WCO's "Cenerentola"
  • On the other hand, this doesn't mean that we have to kowtow to the disingenuous, the graspingly ambitious, the intellectually dishonest, or others whose views conflict with our own.
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  • A moment — and the darkness would reign in her as before; her eyes glower, her fingers feel out graspingly-how much? she would say. The Growth of the Soil
  • My fatal mistake last year, I think now, lay in my accepting what she gave me -- accepting it so readily, so graspingly even. Marcella
  • Densher must be poor and Kate graspingly ambitious for money and position if they are to be put to work to deceive Milly Theale. Digging James
  • June sat on the ground, breathing in raspingly.
  • Across all ages, a total of 6,363,325 votes had been cast in the most recent Big Brother final, but that figure does not take into account widespread multiple voting, so graspingly encouraged by Channel 4. The myth of reality TV
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