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growling
adjective as in guttural
adjective as in hoarse
adjective as in husky
adjective as in peevish
Weak matches
- acrimonious
- angry
- bad-tempered
- cantankerous
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- childish
- churlish
- complaining
- crabbed
- cranky
- critical
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cussed
- fault-finding
- fractious
- fretful
- fretting
- grouchy
- grousing
- grumpy
- huffy
- ill-natured
- mean
- morose
- obstinate
- ogre
- ornery
- out-of-sorts
- pertinacious
- petulant
- querulous
- short-tempered
- snappy
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tetchy
- touchy
- ugly
- waspish
- waspy
- whining
Example Sentences
His label’s first vinyl release in 2022 was a 30th anniversary remastered version of L7’s growling third album, “Bricks Are Heavy,” while the mission now is mostly focused on discovering new acts.
More recently, he could be heard growling "This is CNN", conveying urgency and bestowing gravitas on the US news channel's tagline.
There certainly was no gliding Wednesday, only banging and grunting and growling and, oh yeah, chugging.
Misinformation isn’t the only obstacle: As Diaz and her co-worker Ashley Jackson rounded the neighborhood one Wednesday, clipboards in hand, they faced locked gates and growling dogs.
“Please tell me that was one of your stomachs growling,” JP says.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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