gratingly
- a word derived from grating.
Example Sentences
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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
I can still hum parts of the gratingly cheery song from the parade held in Mickey’s honor.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2024
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
“Well, that’s gratingly vague. You gonna help me with this mural or not?”
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
