gruff Definition

curmudgeonly, crusty, husky, hoarse, cacophonic, cacophonous, ill-humored, ill-humoured, ill-natured, surly, taciturn, irascible, cantankerous, brusque, avuncular, affable, brash, laconic, ornery, pugnacious, growly, sardonic, grumpy, jovial, raspy, deadpan, garrulous, crotchety, cocky, grouchy, stolid, burly, sarcastic, acerbic, mannered, gravelly, truculent, bristly, snappish, genial, grandfatherly, grizzled, amiable, easygoing, unassuming, flinty, drawling, imperturbable, stoic, hangdog, suave, plainspoken, droll, humorless, gregarious, brusk, urbane, inexpressive, wry, folksy, owlish, likeable, boyish, bearlike, jocular, steely, unflappable, jowly, charming, courtly, abrasive, mustachioed, diffident, loquacious, tenderhearted, chatty, undemonstrative, craggy, likable, snarly, straightlaced, rumpled, gentlemanly, personable, lovable, smarmy, debonair, phlegmatic, hotheaded, bombastic, bespectacled, bumptious, charismatic, softhearted, goatish, pompous, adenoidal, fatherly, dapper, monosyllabic,