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# gruffly

«gruffly» in Mova's school dictionary: **In a rough, deep, unfriendly voice** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

In a rough, deep, unfriendly voice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gruffly/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a grumpy character, often a cat, an old man or a troll, speaks gruffly to someone who has disturbed them

### examples

- «Go away,» he said gruffly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gruffly/#x1)
- The cat replied gruffly from her chair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gruffly/#x2)
- The troll answered gruffly from under the bridge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gruffly/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gruffly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gruffly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.