What is another word for 'gruff'?

Synonyms for GRUFF: ill-humored, crusty, encrusted, crustlike, husky, hoarse, ill-humoured, crusted, curmudgeonly, burly, buirdly, strapping, beefy, acrimonious, churlish, crabbed, dogged, gloomy, ill-natured, morose, severe, snappish, sour, splenetic, sulky, sullen, surly, rough, bearish, harsh, rude, blunt, uncivil, uncourteous, ungracious, impolite, bluff, BRUSQUE, coarse, croaking, croaky, grating, gravel, gravelly, rasping, raspy, rusty, scratchy, throaty, austere, dour, fierce, flinty, forbidding, grim, intimidating, lowering, louring, rugged, stark, steely, stern, ungentle, etc.

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