Brusque and surly and forbidding.
Having a hardened crust as a covering.
Синонимы
Examples for "gruff "
Examples for "gruff "
1 The tones were gruff , and almost Indian-like in the brevity of expression.
2 Nevertheless, in spite of himself, he went on in a gruff voice:
3 His gruff voice was the one I'd heard talking with Luke earlier.
4 His voice was gruff , his manner professional, and the news was bad.
5 When he was within talking distance he said in a gruff voice:
1 Moreover the place is wearisome, and I am fanciful and often ill-humoured .
2 The miller felt the hours hang heavily, and he became listless and ill-humoured .
3 All this time he was hardly awake and a little ill-humoured in consequence.
4 Marius shrugged his shoulders; his face suggested that he was ill-humoured .
5 His temper has changed, too: he has grown ill-humoured and irritable.
1 Prematurely curmudgeonly , O'Rourke is a man forever on the outside looking in.
2 He was crusty, curmudgeonly , opinionated and a real delight to know.
3 Benítez must wish he could revert to his old curmudgeonly ways.
4 The familiarity is there, and the inspector is as curmudgeonly warm as usual.
5 From the off Byrne played up the role of the curmudgeonly old stager.
1 But he was little given to thought, although not ill-humored in intention.
2 Then, quite exhausted and rather ill-humored , I walked back to the village.
3 This almost imperceptible symptom, and the rather ill-humored look, foretold a storm.
4 He then went into the yard and unchained the formidable and ill-humored watch-dog.
5 Be not ill-humored ; you know it is useless to resist me.
Having a crisp texture, brittle yet tender.
1 One hand held fast to the crusty wood better than the other.
2 James had come to quite like the professor, despite his crusty exterior.
3 Trump also represents the polar opposite of golf's crusty , oft-criticised membership culture.
4 Served with satay, pour over chips or just simply with crusty bread.
5 His usual crusty manner was quite gone now; he seemed years older.
6 The crusty irritability that had always poisoned their relationship was suddenly gone.
7 In this case it's crusty old Mr Carvelle, played by Dustin Hoffman.
8 Serves four to six, with some fresh crusty bread alongside, for dunking.
9 The front of her nightie is drying; the crusty stiffness scratches her.
10 She is never crusty , and is the untiring playmate of any child.
11 It forms a crusty layer with the cheese making it extra tasty!
12 It really is five million tons. The crusty old bastard was beaming.
13 There's a cursed crusty old Prussian officer here; one Colonel de Trumpetson.
14 The live oaks got a crusty look and the sagebrush was gray.
15 I love crusty bread and this knife cuts so smoothly through it.
16 The bread, of course, was black war bread, but crusty and fine.
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