gruffadjective
uk/ɡrʌf/us/ɡrʌf/(of a person's voice) low and unfriendly, or (of a person's behaviour) unfriendly or showing no patience:
"Yeah, so what?" came the gruff reply.
He's quite a sweet man beneath the gruff exterior.
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Describing qualities of the human voice
- aloud
- break
- breathy
- dulcet
- fruity
- guttural
- honeyed
- lilting
- rough
- soft-spoken
- stentorian
- strangled
- strangulated
- throaty
- tone
- toned
- toneless
- vocal
- voice
- voiced
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Not being friendly
gruffly
adverb uk/ˈɡrʌf.li/us/ˈɡrʌf.li/
"You drive," Casey gruffly told Jack.
gruffness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈɡrʌf.nəs/us/ˈɡrʌf.nəs/