grating
noun
a fixed frame of bars or the like covering an opening to exclude persons, animals, coarse material, or objects while admitting light, air, or fine material.
gratingly
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a word derived from
grating.
Example Sentences
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The brothers staunchly disagree with the maxim that puns are the lowest form of humor, and their works are almost universally branded with gratingly unfunny names.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Their second EP, Beautiful Chaos, peaked at number two in the US album charts, thanks to the gratingly brilliant lead single, Gnarly, and the Charli XCX-penned follow-up, Gabriella.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025
It's an audio format, so the listener gets to hear his father talk about all this, and what's striking is how gratingly arrogant his dad is.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2025
Yet their conversations are gratingly anodyne, invoking platitudes like “truth,” while the visuals insipidly jump between screens, close-ups of faces and slow motion shots of the two on the road.
From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2023
It had curled gratingly around the end of the truck and, still spinning and sliding, was about to collide with me again.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
