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gruff

• (s) brusque and surly and forbidding
  • crusty remarks
  • a crusty old man
  • his curmudgeonly temper
  • gruff manner
  • a gruff reply
  curmudgeonly, ill-humored, ill-humoured, crusty,
• (s) deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion
  • gruff voices
  • the dog's gruff barking
  • hoarse cries
  • makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky - Virgil Thomson
  hoarse, husky,

Synonyms

curmudgeonly ill-humored ill-humoured crusty hoarse husky

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