gritty

If you’ve never dipped your hands into a bowl of freshly processed breadcrumbs and felt their gritty, sandy texture before, you’re seriously missing out.

This is action on a grand scale that, despite its grittiness and naturalism, boasts very high production values.

“Grittiness is what differentiated it in from the beginning,” Henderson said.

As with the teen drama Skins, it was that British grittiness that was part of the allure to millions of teenage viewers.

Very often the texture of pear-flesh is marred by grittiness to which some varieties are much more subject than others.

The flesh is juicy, tender, vinous, free from grittiness and seldom rots at the core.

For suddenly he was surprised by a most disagreeable sense of grittiness, and then a keen stab in the roof of his month.

A greyish-yellow powder free from grittiness, and with no smell of sulphuretted hydrogen.

Its grittiness would hurt the newborn weaklings, its dryness would absorb the moisture indispensable to their movements.