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Gruff
Gruff
gruff
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(adjective)
rough, brusque, or stern in manner, speech, or aspect - harsh or especially deep;
e.g. The bartender was gruff and surly, speaking little and acting harsh.
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Caddish
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Fierce
Flinty
Forbidding
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Gravel
Gravelly
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Hoarse
Husky
Incisive
Lippy
Lowering
Monkish
Point-blank
Raspy
Rough
Rugged
Scratchy
Severe
Sharp-tongued
Spiky
Stark
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Steely
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Throaty
Tongue-in-cheek
Undesigning
Ungentle
Unsubtle
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Benign
Benignant
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Delicate
Easy
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Frivolous
Gentle
Giddy
Glad
Golden
Goofy
Gracious
Happy
Harebrained
High-pitched
Hospitable
Inviting
Light
Light-headed
Lighthearted
Liquid
Lyric
Lyrical
Meek
Mellifluous
Mellow
Melodious
Merry
Mild
Musical
Nasal
Nonabrasive
Piping
Playful
Pleasant
Pleasing
Quiet
Satiny
Screeching
Shrill
Silken
Silly
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Sociable
Soothing
Squeaky
Sunny
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Abrupt
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Acrid
Adamant
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Bluff
Blunt
Bound
Brooding
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Candid
Caustic
Cheerless
Cold
Corrosive
Cracked
Crusty
Curt
Cutting
Dark
Determined
Direct
Discordant
Discourteous
Dissonant
Downright
Firm
Flinty
Forthcoming
Forthright
Foursquare
Frank
Free-spoken
Gloomy
Glum
Grave
Growling
Guttural
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Hardheaded
Harsh
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Honest
Hostile
Humorless
Ill-bred
Ill-mannered
Immovable
Immutable
Impertinent
Implacable
Impolite
Inconsiderate
Inflexible
Inharmonious
Inhospitable
Inimical
Intent
Jarring
Low
Mannered
Melancholic
Melancholy
Moody
Mordant
Morose
Mulish
Obdurate
Obstinate
Open
Openhearted
Out-front
Outspoken
Plain
Plainspoken
Pungent
Purposeful
Ramrod
Raucous
Resolute
Rigid
Rigorous
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Rude
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Satiric
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Scathing
Screeching
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Serious
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Sobersided
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Sulky
Sullen
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Tart
Thoughtless
Throaty
Tough
Unbending
Uncalled-for
Unceremonious
Unchangeable
Uncivil
Uncompromising
Unflinching
Unfriendly
Ungracious
Unguarded
Unhandsome
Unmannered
Unmannerly
Unmusical
Unrelenting
Unreserved
Unsmiling
Unsympathetic
Unyielding
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Weighty
Willful
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