What is another word for gruff?

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calloused, harshness, forbidding, asperity, unwise, scabrous, petulant, acidic, beastly, awkward, crustlike, brutality, bristly, hot-tempered, raspy, huffy, cruelty, lowering, acetous, animal, cavalier, roughness, brassy, tetchy, bold, cranky, intimidating, disapproving, inept, impatient, discordant, steely, beefy, jarring, encrusted, gruffly, solemn, gauche, deep, po-faced, harsh-sounding, thick, taciturn, brusquely, hot-blooded, hypersensitive, severity, vinegarish, raggedness, crudity, inharmonious, seediness, thoughtless, sulky, saucy, unskilful, harshly, buirdly, prickly, philistine, crusted, outrageous, flippant, crotchety, rasping, and Irish cranky, pebbly, staccato, contentious, dyspeptic, choleric, ruggedness, disagreeable, hoarsely, Grum, coarsely, Uncomplaisant, unaccommodating, fleeting, unladylike, roily, Inaffable, fresh, Squawking, frowning, unpleasant, irascible, quarrelsome, sensitive, huffish, volatile, chutzpadik, grave, crudeness, stinging, indiscreet, growling, screeching, unkind, hotheaded, huskily, throatily, bad-humoured, abruptly, bilious, temperamental, hoarseness, Grumbly, shrewish, querulous, grumpish, unsophisticated, sullenly, disrespectful, touchy, insulting, grumpily, choked, acrimony, capricious, sombre, rough-and-tumble, humourless, repulsive, explosive, ungallant, austerity, excitable, serious, cross, unmusical, acid, maladroit, roughly, Raucid, impolitic, brazen, prim, unhelpful, ungainly, bluffly, concise, lugubrious, waspish, beast, coarseness, tinny, strangled, ungentlemanly, acerb, strapping, hardness, bungling, shabbiness, imprudent, acidulous, rugged, injudicious, lemony, ungentle, fretful, overbearing, aggressive, biting, gloomy, brute, rigor, brash, burly, squawky, sarcastic, Scabrousness, strident, ragged, inconsiderate, metallic, 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, loud, ornery, oafish, uneducated, barbaric, unrefined, Inurbane, countrified, tasteless, uncultured, vulgar, provincial, gross*, rustic, uncivilized, uncouth, clumsy, ugly, Unpoised, sharp, hasty, ferocious, heartless, insensitive, merciless, savage, unfeeling, hard, remorseless, barbarous, pitiless, unmerciful, severe, ruthless, inhuman, callous, bloodthirsty, vicious, cussed, unsociable, miserly, touchy*, mean, base, ornery*, dirty, lowdown and dirty, blue*, smutty, off-color, vulgarian, foul, common, raunchy, indelicate, uncultivated, earthy, filthy, bawdy, impure, scatological, raw, ribald, raffish, immodest, roughneck, inelegant, cheap, tacky, obscene, improper, gross, 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, fierce, short, crabby, boisterous, truculent, crude, saturnine, cracked, grumpy*, ill-natured, low, offhand, unmannerly, nasty, sour, dour, crabbed, grating, 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, down the mouth, having blahs, more perversive, most moping, down dumps, most perversive, down mouth, singing blues, in a blue funk, more moping, down the dumps, in harmonious, earpiercing, more ear piercing, more braying, dis-sonant, un-harmonious, most atonal, most braying, in-harmonious, dis sonant, more atonal, more absonant, unharmonious, more earpiercing, un harmonious, most earpiercing, most absonant, most ear-piercing, most ear piercing, un-musical, more ear-piercing, ear piercing, un musical, tumultuous, roiled, stridulent, squally, 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, 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, calloused

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What is another word for gruff?

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