Gruffly
adv
adv ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adverb
- 1 In a gruff manner.
"He was bearded, blunt, thickset, and he wore gold-rimmed spectacles. In his bourrue-bienfaisance, in his honesty, and in his brusque insuavity towards such as would compel his sympathy without justification, he was the very type of the dogmatic family doctor—of the gruffly practical allopathist of the old school."
Adverb
- 1 in a gruff manner wordnet
Antonyms
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More examples"He was bearded, blunt, thickset, and he wore gold-rimmed spectacles. In his bourrue-bienfaisance, in his honesty, and in his brusque insuavity towards such as would compel his sympathy without justification, he was the very type of the dogmatic family doctor—of the gruffly practical allopathist of the old school."
Etymology
From gruff + -ly.