gruffly in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for gruffly in the English»French Dictionary

gruffly [Brit ˈɡrʌfli, Am ˈɡrəfli] ADV

gruffly

d'un ton bourru

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

The men are treated gruffly and are humiliated by the process.

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She walks up to the ticket counter to ask the ticket agent when the bus will arrive, and he gruffly replies that this is her third time there.

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It was, he gruffly asserted, all fairly routine procedure that had merely been clumsily worded in a press release.

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He seems a few haystacks short of a harvest, although gruffly polite.

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It's the scene that cements the gruffly sentimental relationship between these characters and saves it from being the second-biggest disappointment of the year.

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They asked each other about the day's work, commented on the weather, and gruffly dropped their items one by one on the counter, cheeks red from the cold.

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The game's lead protagonists are both gruffly voiced dudes fuelled by a steady diet of whiskey and cigarettes and testosterone.

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Gruffly delivered dad-jokes, weren't they?

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His gruffly seasoned vocal timbre is the quintessence of evil.

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This time he was even more gruffly shown (physically pushed) the door.

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