gruff

To the hordes who wanted time with Lincoln, the gruff and efficient Nicolay was the “grim enforcer.”

We needed him to be wary, absorbed, and a little bit gruff, and he gamely complied, thereby furthering his own self-made legend.

Bichir manages to be gruff but sensitive, honest yet mysterious, making Ruiz a mix of righteousness and compassion.

Kevin Whately has been playing gruff, sensible detective Robbie Lewis on ‘Morse’ and ‘Lewis’ for 26 years.

He has played the gruff detective from 1987 to 2000 on Morse and from 2006 to the present on Inspector Lewis.

As they were passing a place where the bushes grew thickly by the side of the road, they received a gruff command to halt.

The fact was that Benny himself did not know why he liked this stranger who was so gruff at times and so pleasant at others.

Even the gruff, grumpy, unsociable rhinoceros amiably allowed him to stroke its head with his trunk.

He spoke angrily, and no longer in a low tone, but gruff and loud enough to be heard some distance away.

"Salam Aliekoom," said a gruff voice, as a man with Peer Khan entered the tent.