What is another word for gruff?

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atonal, bearish, bluff, blunt, boorish, brusque, brutal, brutish, churlish, cloddish, clownish, coarse, croaking, croaky, croupier, croupy, crusty, curt, foul-mouthed, guttural, harsh, hoarse, husky, ill-bred, loutish, lowbred, perversive, raucous, rough, rude, short-tempered, sullen, swinish, tactless, throaty, uncivil, undiplomatic, unfriendly, ungracious, unneighborly, untactful, vinegary, Absonant, Clodhopping, Incult, Short-spoken, Unconsiderate, Unpolitic, matter of fact, Stridulous, ear-piercing, anti-social, breathy, pouty, hardboiled, snippy, ill-disposed, bad-mannered, illbred, sourpussed, out of line, breviloquent, compendiary, down in dumps, down in mouth, down in the dumps, hard shell, hardnosed, having blue devils, having the blahs, in a bad mood, in bad mood, in blue funk, no nonsense, out-of-line, out-of-order, singing the blues, abrupt, bad-tempered, cantankerous, curmudgeonly, discourteous, grouchy, grumbling, grumpy, ill-humored, ill-humoured, ill-tempered, impolite, moody, morose, peevish, snappish, snappy, stern, surly, testy, direct, gruff, impetuous, matter-of-fact, downright, frank, forthright, straightforward, barefaced, tart, unceremonious, candid, laconic, sincere, terse, hearty, Snippety, honest, open, outspoken, blustering, no-nonsense, Plain-spoken, explicit, unpolished, trenchant, provincial, uneducated, countrified, barbaric, vulgar, oafish, uncultured, loud, Unpoised, tasteless, ugly, uncouth, Inurbane, uncivilized, unrefined, ornery, clumsy, rustic, sharp, hasty, ferocious, heartless, insensitive, merciless, savage, unfeeling, hard, remorseless, barbarous, pitiless, unmerciful, severe, ruthless, inhuman, callous, bloodthirsty, vicious, cussed, miserly, base, unsociable, mean, dirty, inelegant, obscene, bawdy, gross, smutty, indelicate, filthy, scatological, common, uncultivated, lowdown and dirty, improper, ribald, raffish, foul, off-color, roughneck, tacky, earthy, vulgarian, cheap, raunchy, raw, immodest, impure, crass, most vinegary, more snarling, more vinegary, more splenetic, most ill humored, more illhumored, splenetic, most splenetic, most illhumored, more ill-humored, more ill humored, most ill-humored, most snarling, ill humored, illhumored, peremptory, more compendiary, most compendiary, short sweet, cracked, dour, grating, ill-natured, saturnine, sour, crude, nasty, boisterous, low, truculent, short, offhand, fierce, crabby, crabbed, unmannerly, gravelly, glottal, hard nosed, un kind, un pleasant, hard boiled, more hard nosed, hard-nosed, un kindest, un relenting, un-kind, un-kinder, un kinder, un-kindest, hardshell, un-pleasant, breathier, in-distinct, more stridulous, breathiest, in distinct, stertorous, more stertorous, most squawking, most stertorous, most stridulous, more squawking, un even, croupiest, un-even, earpiercing, unharmonious, dis-sonant, most braying, in-harmonious, most absonant, more atonal, most earpiercing, more braying, un harmonious, more earpiercing, un musical, more absonant, most ear piercing, unmusical, more ear-piercing, more ear piercing, un-harmonious, most atonal, un-musical, in harmonious, ear piercing, dis sonant, most ear-piercing, tumultuous, roiled, squally, stridulent, raspy, roily, rough-and-tumble, rough and tumble, knockabout, in-solent, in solent, critical, chilly, stark, icy, imperial, inflexible, astringent, lean, austere, fundamental, draconian, frosty, relentless, hidebound, rigorous, demanding, brisk, grim, unbending, oppressive, exacting, correct, intolerant, intense, piquant, precise, stiff-necked, acrimonious, spartan, caustic, spare, strict, crisp, basic, obdurate, cutting, meticulous, rigid, bleak, puritanical, acerbic, strait-laced, censorious, disciplined, keen, acute, authoritarian, stringent, prudish, uncompromising, cool, dry, obstinate, ascetic, shortest, shortspoken, short spoken, shorttempered, short tempered, sharptongued, sharp tongued, more brooding, more sulking, most sourpussed, de-pressed, more sourpussed, de pressed, most pouting, most sulking, poutier, poutiest, most brooding, with drawn, more pouting, with-drawn, sulky, tenebrific, mis understanding, in-judicious, un-subtler, more unconsiderate, in-discreet, un-considerate, most unconsiderate, un considerate, mis-understanding, in judicious, more misunderstanding, more blundering, in discreet, most blundering, un sympathetic, un subtler, most misunderstanding, un subtle, un perceptive, un-perceptive, un-subtlest, un-subtle, un subtlest, jugular, Gular, more mannerless, un-civil, un gentlemanly, most mannerless, un civil, mannerless, un-gentlemanly, more estranged, most against, not on speaking terms, un friendly, more illdisposed, un friendlier, most estranged, un-friendly, mis-anthropic, most grudging, dis-affected, in-hospitable, most ill-disposed, un-congenial, un-friendliest, ill disposed, in-auspicious, not speaking terms, in hospitable, most ill disposed, more grudging, un-charitable, more ill-disposed, mis anthropic, more ill disposed, most illdisposed, un-favorable, un congenial, dis-agreeable, un favorable, un charitable, anti social, dis affected, more against, un propitious, un-friendlier, in auspicious, dis agreeable, un friendliest, illdisposed, dis-respectful, un-fortunate, un-gracious, dis respectful, un fortunate, un gracious, un-politic, un politic, un-tactful, un tactful, ill-mannered, insolent, impudent, smart, impertinent, abrasive, offensive, appealing, disembodied, dead, fruity, brittle, adenoidal, flat, brief, attitude, irritable, cacophonic, cacophonous, atonal

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