gruffly
adverb
Everyday
In a rough, deep, unfriendly voice. tree →
In the lessons
a grumpy character, often a cat, an old man or a troll, speaks gruffly to someone who has disturbed them
Examples
- «Go away,» he said gruffly. tree →
- The cat replied gruffly from her chair. tree →
- The troll answered gruffly from under the bridge. tree →
Note
nothing for maths
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «gruffly» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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