gruff
"Come in and close the door", he said gruffly.
She gruffly advised him to leave the country.
“What’s going on here?” the policeman gruffly asked.
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abrasive
abrasively
abrasiveness
abruptly
abruptness
aloof
estrangement
estrangement from someone
flintily
forbidding
forbiddingly
frigid
gruff
offish
remote
remoteness
reserved
reservedly
saturnine
wintry
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