Her voice fell gratingly on our ears. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
It's gratingly incongruous in southern California. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-11-12] Reference
He gritted his teeth, spoke gratingly through them. From Wordnik.com. [The Perfect Lover]
The chains of the anchor clank gratingly on the ear. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
Phyllis lowered her voice to a gratingly confidential tone. From Wordnik.com. [Deep Waters] Reference
"Could be," he replied in a gratingly cheerful tone of voice. From Wordnik.com. [For The Roses]
By "worse" I mean more gratingly disingenuous and self-serving. From Wordnik.com. [Watching the Iowa caucuses.] Reference
Link my Boston-sport-fan friends have become gratingly triumphal. From Wordnik.com. [A Super Bowl Preview from the Freako Family - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
Frank gratingly reminded Herman of his origins and perhaps true nature. From Wordnik.com. [Deal Breaker]
I might have even fallen asleep had the music not been so gratingly bad. From Wordnik.com. [Hard Rock Zombies (1985)] Reference
The door swung gratingly back -- the gleam of spears shot along the walls. From Wordnik.com. [Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform] Reference
"It's the way her people do," he interjected, his voice gratingly cheerful. From Wordnik.com. [The Lion's Lady]
I find something gratingly unpleasant about the commoditization of Fine Art. From Wordnik.com. [Amy Bernays: Been Counting] Reference
Please imagine a gratingly optimistic sing-song voice speaking all of the above. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Bradley: Video Mother] Reference
Slowly, gratingly, the golem turned and lumbered out of the cave, clumsy and ponderous. From Wordnik.com. [Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town] Reference
"You haven't figured out a damned thing," he said gratingly, eyes narrowed on the road. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Blood]
"You'll be saying next that Hartnell and his wife are being framed, too," he said gratingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Satan Bug]
And he raised his arm high, bringing the point of his spear gratingly along the carved surface. From Wordnik.com. [Star Born] Reference
This colors and informs his writing in a thousand ways that are gratingly lacking in Obama's book. From Wordnik.com. ["I'll probably... peel off until the cake."] Reference
Vocalists gratingly mock the instruments at times in a way that is supposed to be funny, but isn't. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference
She followed this up with a stream of silly, frivolous comments at which she would laugh gratingly. From Wordnik.com. [Tough Love « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference
'I only have to spend a few minutes in your company to know what your problem is,' she returned gratingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Virgin]
Here are a couple sample pages, so you can see for yourself just how pointlessly, gratingly distracting it is. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-02-08] Reference
It had curled gratingly around the end of the truck and, still spinning and sliding, was about to collide with me again. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight]
Look at the time and I have gratingly produced some very bad lines about Axendo being threatened by Yugir and his thugs. From Wordnik.com. [I hate being ill] Reference
She's elitist and condescending toward those less informed than she is (i.e., everybody) and gratingly unapologetic about it. From Wordnik.com. [Odd Couple] Reference
While not all happy endings are phony, this one gives off a distinct whiff of postmodern series TV at its most gratingly earnest. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost of Daisy Mae] Reference
There are so many things (the staring facts of inequality, for example) about which we feel it is right not to want to speak gratingly. From Wordnik.com. [Euphemism and American Violence] Reference
While not as gratingly obvious as the author blogs at. From Wordnik.com. [reeling and writhing] Reference
Their public address announcer, who used to gratingly yell. From Wordnik.com. [Fore, right!] Reference
I heard him clear gratingly his parched throat, and became all attention. From Wordnik.com. [Under Western Eyes] Reference
She stood up and the abrupt movement pushed the table gratingly across the floor. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference
Tucker's music is suffused with integrity and intelligence but is never gratingly high-brow. From Wordnik.com. [The Line Of Best Fit] Reference
I'm no math major (sorry Jim), but that's a bit lower than we've gratingly become accustomed to. From Wordnik.com. [Kuklas Korner] Reference
Peter moved his arm and she flung the coins suddenly on the floor, and laughed gratingly at him. From Wordnik.com. [Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories] Reference
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