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Answer for the clue "Harsh — brusque ", 5 letters:
gruff

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Usage examples of gruff.

The gruff old Basque poet had been down here for two days, making base camp at the foot of the cone and taking little Theseus sorties into the small caves and galleries that gave out from the principal chamber.

For all of his gruff talk and his grizzled look, Horner Dees knew what he was doing.

Rejoining the two who covered the servant, Goofer gruffed questions to the prisoner.

Vladimir remarked with a deliberately off-hand carelessness and in gruff tones that he was going to the Rue de la Huchette, and set off as soon as he had finished eating.

A couple of them were unhappy about leaving Kibbo and Foster behind, but Ntoko quelled their dissent with a few gruff words about how the guys would want the platoon to reach the spaceport.

When he spoke, it was with the common gestures punctuated with the gruff words of everyday speech.

The ancient tower of a church, whose gruff old bell was always peeping slily down at Scrooge out of a Gothic window in the wall, became invisible, and struck the hours and quarters in the clouds, with tremulous vibrations afterwards as if its teeth were chattering in its frozen head up there.

His voice was soft and neutral and that surprised her because she expected lawyers would ask questions with gruff voices, sneery and mean.

Finally, a gruff voice had answered and cursed her roundly, demanding to know what she was doing, calling a pay phone on the corner of Sixth Avenue and Fif tieth Street.

City Watch, in conjunction with the Guilstapo, have arrested a suspect, one Mr Pottern Gruff, in Westside this afternoon and charged him with the Hightown Hacker murders.

Having made one or two tentative remarks to the nearest miner, and receiving only short, gruff replies, the traveller resigned himself to uncongenial silence, staring moodily out of the window at the fading landscape.

So Sarge turned off the lights, gruffing that it had all been a big mistake.

He nodded to the Hackworths and mumbled something gruff but polite through his chinstrap as father and daughter rode out of New Atlantis and into a gaudy dave full of loutish thetes scrumming and chanting before the entrances of pubs.

When I was in college, my father, a gruff undemonstrative man, died of a stroke on a ladder one Saturday afternoon while painting the house.

He was large, gruff, clumsy, and unpolished, but he was learning courtly ways fast.