rasp
verb (used with object)
to scrape or abrade with a rough instrument.
raspish
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a word derived from
rasp.
Example Sentences
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“Before the coronavirus, we sold everything,” Javier said in a raspish, gentle voice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2020
Explosions Martha Taft, the Senator's wife, sailed into a meeting of Republican women in Philadelphia with a bouquet of raspish phrases.
From Time Magazine Archive
You were hot-headed, and I was ill-tempered and raspish, and so we quarrelled, and you—you, my only brother—sulked with me for six and twenty years.
From Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 2 of 3) by Frederick William Robinson
He was fifty and iron-grey, with whiskers, but no moustache; short, stoutish, raspish.
From The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
Tell Susan that all the newspaper accounts taken together could not increase the pride which I have long felt in her pertinacious, obstinate, fault-finding, raspish, strong-minded, dogmatic and grand career.
From The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper
