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scratchy
adjective as in harsh
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- acrid
- asperous
- astringent
- bitter
- bleak
- cacophonous
- caterwauling
- clashing
- coarse
- craggy
- creaking
- croaking
- disagreeing
- dissonant
- disturbing
- dry
- earsplitting
- flat
- glaring
- grating
- grim
- guttural
- hard
- incompatible
- jagged
- jangling
- jarring
- noisy
- not smooth
- off-key
- out-of-key
- out-of-tune
- rasping
- rigid
- rough
- rugged
- rusty
- screeching
- severe
- sharp
- sour
- squawky
- strident
- stridulous
- tuneless
- uneven
- unlevel
- unmelodious
- unmusical
- unrelenting
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Example Sentences
Cochran had come down with some nasty throat bug and his voice was low and scratchy, but that only made it better.
Rogers was a squat, bald-headed man who sported a scratchy-looking gray goatee.
Is that scratchy rug atop her head really meant to be Kate's famously silken locks?
Once again, Pharoah hammers down every screechy, scratchy vocal tic while doing a Rock-sian riff on Romeo and Juliet.
Last year, she had a chance to meet Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma, 16 years after seeing that scratchy video in Beijing.
It was a recording, scratchy, and full of unthinkable distance.
Instantly there was the sound of hurrying footsteps, tiny scratchy footsteps, and hundreds of mice came running into the hut.
This stuff is rough and scratchy, and theres no use starting out to damage things.
To my great discomfort—for it was very scratchy—I seated myself on the crown.
Then he ran his stiff and scratchy wing down his leg, yawned, and seemed bored.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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