Crossword-Solution: GRUFFNESS
We have 2 clues for the answer “GRUFFNESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Surly manner | 1 answer |
| Harsh quality | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZMAECE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with GRUFFNESS (5)
Tree was seated, some half-dozen young men hovering uneasily in her neighbourhood, all his audacity was suddenly stricken from him; his gruffness, his overbearing insolence vanished with an abruptness that left him cold.
His gruffness was little more than a protection which he wore to hide a complete disillusionment; and to Philip it seemed tragic to see him just waiting for death, not impatiently, but rather with loathing for it, hating old age and unable to resign himself to its limitations, and yet with the feeling that death was the only solution of the bitterness of his life.
With a gruffness as if the evening mist had got into his throat he said: "Let's take another bench." "Why?" objected she.
Then she turned again to the surly host with a smile that must have caused him to regret his gruffness.
The eyes that met mine were sad, but not reproachful; that she had been crying bitterly, I could tell by the redness of her eyelids, but her manner was unchanged from its old gruffness.
Quotes with GRUFFNESS (1)
To build a character like Henry Warnimont required a few weeks and months of work. It turned out he was basically a very kind and generous man, which he covered up with his surface gruffness and surface bluster. And the kind of hopeless quality, that 'everything goes wrong' kind of thing.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2007–2011).