abrasive

I found this kind of likable, yet abrasive guy who is still trying to help these people.

This is contemporary sound to dispel clichéd fears of abrasive modernism while never cheaply pandering to mass appeal.

Quizzed on a perception that she can seen as abrasive, Badenoch agreed she may need to take a more softly-softly approach.

Downey, who plunged into tech’s moral gray zones in his “Iron Man” outings, makes it possible for an audience to both deplore McNeal and delight in the abrasive pleasure of his company.

Parker was often abrasive, but Crowther considers Parker empathetically, as a sui generis who resisted becoming a cog in the filmmaking machinery.