Brusque and surly and forbidding.
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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 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.
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.
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.
6 Kashtanka stretched, yawned and, cross and ill-humoured , walked about the room.
7 As usual, his face looked anxious and ill-humoured , and his beard was uncombed.
8 They are not ill-humoured , and they are not peevishly arrogant, except upon provocation.
9 Annas was a thin ill-humoured - looking old man, with a scraggy beard.
10 If I were ill-humoured I would say you marked the cards!
11 Mr. Bonteen, however, was not beaten by much, and was in consequence somewhat ill-humoured .
12 Finishing the service after a fashion, dissatisfied and ill-humoured , he set off for Shuteykino.
13 I get ill-humoured and indifferent, and then leave off.'
14 He was gloomy, ill-humoured , taciturn, was afraid of nobody, and refused to recognize any authority.
15 This he said in a tone which he himself felt to be ill-humoured and almost petulant.
16 He was not an ill-humoured man in reality.
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