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gruff

— adjective (= hoarse, husky) 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

— adjective (= crusty, curmudgeonly) brusque and surly and forbidding crusty remarks a crusty old man his curmudgeonly temper gruff manner a gruff reply

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rough

harsh

surly

hoarse

unkind

unpleasant

sullen

sour

rude

husky

disagreeable

crusty

brutal

brusque

throaty

abrupt

ungracious

unfriendly

tough

inimical

ill-humoured

ill-humored

curmudgeonly

wiry

wild

violent

unsympathetic

unsupportive

unpleasing

unkindly

ungallant

ungainly

uneven

uncivil

uncharitable

tweedy

touchy

stodgy

somber

slubbed

setose

seamy

screechy

scraggly

scabrous

sad

rugged

raw

raucous

rather rude

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