grating
2[grey-ting]
- irritating or unpleasant to one's feelings.
- (of a sound or noise) harsh, discordant, or rasping.
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Origin of grating
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Historical Examples of gratingly
"We are better off sometimes if we don't get all that belongs to us," said John gratingly.
The Desert and The SownMary Hallock Foote
Bear Cat Stacy's voice as he answered was gratingly hard and his eyes were unyielding.
When 'Bear Cat' Went DryCharles Neville Buck
Slowly, gratingly, the golem turned and lumbered out of the cave, clumsy and ponderous.
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves TownCory Doctorow
But now he began to make such a strange crowing noise, just like a chair drawn heavily and gratingly along a kitchen-floor!
The Grey Woman and other TalesMrs. (Elizabeth) Gaskell
"Kill 'em both with one stone, then," wheezed the turnkey, gratingly throwing open the door of the cell.
Pierre; or The AmbiguitiesHerman Melville
grating
1- Also called: grate a framework of metal bars in the form of a grille set into a wall, pavement, etc, serving as a cover or guard but admitting air and sometimes light
- short for diffraction grating
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grating
2- (of sounds) harsh and rasping
- annoying; irritating
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- (often plural) something produced by grating
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Word Origin and History for gratingly
grating
"annoying, irritating," 1560s, figurative use of present participle adjective from grate (v.).
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