gruff
adjective
low and harsh; hoarse.
gruffish
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a word derived from
gruff.
Example Sentences
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For a minute, everything danced before Polly's eyes, as a hand shook hers warmly, and a gruffish voice said heartily, "How are you, Polly?"
From An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott
‘Tottle, my dear fellow, how do you do?’ said a short elderly gentleman with a gruffish voice, bursting into the room, and replying to the question by asking another.
From Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people by Charles Dickens
I know what you are going to say,' observed the gentleman in a curt, gruffish voice.
From The Young Duke by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
As they turned up into a small court, opening out of a squalid street, Bessy said, 'Yo'll not be daunted if father's at home, and speaks a bit gruffish at first.
From North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
