Synonym: blunt, brusque, coarse, curt, deep, harsh, husky, rough, rude, unfriendly. Similar words: gruffly, ruffle, dandruff, scruffy, ruffian, unruffled, grub, grue. Meaning: [grʌf] adj. 1. brusque and surly and forbidding 2. deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion.
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(31) He was an irritable old man, who seldom spoke except to say a gruff hello.
(32) Soon the middle Billy Goat Gruff came across the bridge with a louder trip-trap sound.
(33) Her gruff mannish exterior hid a sensitive and complex nature.
(34) Mr. Barkis seemed gruff and answered dryly.
(35) Robin first time met Quinn, a gruff, rough-hewn cargo pilot, when she was look for the charter plane.
(36) Critics describe a Garbo deep gruff voice like the Alto, with incredible arias like magic.
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(37) Carelessness in their tone of voice, often speaking in gruff, antagonistic tones.
(38) Simultaneously I heard his voice, gruff, muffled, husky, at the hall telephone.
(39) Eg. For all his gruff heartiness , there must lurk inside him the soul of an evangelical preacher.
(40) " Who was that fiddling here? " asked the gruff voiced soldier.
(41) Oryza rufipogon Gruff. , known as the ancestor of Asian cultivated rice (Oryza sativa L. ), is an important germplasm for rice improvement.
(42) His gruff father warned, " Don't bring home an Okinawan or an Eta. "
(43) But the gruff, burly Rochester insists on getting home unaided although he is in great pain.
(44) Aunt Chloe set a chair for her in a manner decidedly gruff and crusty.
(45) 'S Reign of Fire saw him move from inflammatory hard dancehall towards gruff, judgemental roots music.
(46) The gruff ruffian's ruffled cuff is scuffed in the scuffle with the shuffler.
(47) I hope there ain't, but I't'Nation sure of that'said the guard, in gruff soliloquy.
(48) His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed.
(49) Doctors found the cleome a glioma a gruff growth in the supportive tissue of the brain.
More similar words: gruffly, ruffle, dandruff, scruffy, ruffian, unruffled, grub, grue, grunt, grubby, grumpy, grunge, grudge, grumble, gruesome, grueling, begrudge, congruous, gruelling, grumbling, congruent, incongruity, incongruous, grudgingly, in the long run, disgruntled, guff, muff, cuff, buff.