Gruff is an abrupt or forbidding tone. It's the kind of short, brusque response you'd give a telemarketer who called you in the middle of dinner right before you hung up.
Of a rough or stern manner, voice, or countenance; sour; surly; severe; harsh.
Adjective S.
deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion; "gruff voices"; "the dog''s gruff barking"; "hoarse cries"; "makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky"- Virgil Thomson
Adjective S.
brusque and surly and forbidding; "crusty remarks"; "a crusty old man"; "his curmudgeonly temper"; "gruff manner"; "a gruff reply"
superl.
Of a rough or stern manner, voice, or countenance;
sour; surly; severe; harsh.
Gruff
Gruff, disagreeable, sarcastic remarks.--
Of a rough or stern manner, voice, or countenance; sour; surly; severe; harsh.
Usage Examples
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