(superl.) Of a rough or stern manner, voice, or countenance; sour; surly; severe; harsh.
Example Sentences:
(1) A gruff intellectual alternately nicknamed “Mad Dog” and “the warrior monk,” Mattis is deeply respected in much of the foreign policy establishment, despite notably clashing with the Obama administration over his more hawkish views on Iran.
(2) Ricky Gervais: 'It’s always about people, it’s always about ego' Read more Take the film’s opening minute, in which gruff US comedian Jim Norton cameos as an absurdly camp male prostitute eager to offer radio journalist Frank Bonneville (Eric Bana) a “freebie”.
(3) I still am.” For many Republican primary voters, the question is whether the unassuming if somewhat gruff Paul – who insisted on no mayo in the ham and cheese sandwich he ordered for lunch – ever was particularly interesting, or if voters were only attracted to the idiosyncratic, 21st-century libertarianism he expounds.
(4) At the booth in between the never-was of Windsor and the has-been of Detroit, the officer I happened to draw had a gruff belly and the mysterious air of intentional inscrutability, like a troll under a bridge in a fairytale.
(5) The then manager was Walter Smith, a gruff but dignified Scot who had enjoyed considerable success at Rangers a decade earlier.
(6) Ingham, whose gruffness camouflages an intellect of silken agility, was addressing the specific question of his boss’s public image, and asking, by implication, if the Iron Lady could – well – melt, just a little.
(7) The film critic, who says Statham's name with an approximation of his low, gruff cockney, likes the chance the actor took with Hummingbird and also admires his 2011 film Blitz , co-starring Paddy Considine.
(8) Many had come for the first time to witness the much-vaunted oratorical skills of France’s youngest MP – and to see how she compared to her grandfather, the gruff former paratrooper Jean-Marie Le Pen, who co-founded the Front National in 1972 and led it to become the most successful far-right party in western Europe.
(9) Get the metal pan!” Martin jokes, aping the Hollywood convention of a gruff doctor dropping each slug into a brass surgical tray with a solid “plink”.
(10) Rajapaksa's folksy, gruff bonhomie and his canny direction of development funds to the countryside has paid dividends at successive polls.
(11) His manner was often gruff and rude, even to those he liked: Isabella Blow, (pictured right with McQueen) who was broke when she bought his entire first collection and had to pay for it in installments, told me once how he used to march her to the cashpoint every week to get £50 out.
(12) Many of them were adapted for television or made into feature films; the Wexford books in particular were an enormous success on TV, with the actor George Baker playing Wexford as a big, gruff, rural policeman, solving crime in the fictional Sussex town of Kingsmarkham.
(13) But his less enthusiastic answer about Bannon comes amid reports of infighting in the Trump White House, all of which place the gruff, irascible Bannon at the center.
(14) Jenkins is small, but she has a surprisingly gruff voice, rising to a growl when she is annoyed.
(15) "I'm extremely well," he says with jovial gruffness.
(16) Luther starts in the UK on Tuesday, 9pm, BBC1 LUTHER: THE SERIES THREE LINEUP John Luther Gruff of voice, red of eye, natty of coat, the maverick DCI is good at solving crime, bad at life.
(17) His voice sounded gruff, his eyes still fixed on my breasts as he continued the fierce stroking and caressing.
(18) The White House did not announce the meeting until late on Thursday, prompting a gruff complaint from Beijing, in what has become something of a diplomatic ritual whenever Obama meets the exiled Buddhist monk.
(19) Tens of thousands of west of Scotland men derived a gruff pride in working hard for their money and providing food and shelter for their families.
(20) The show has made a star of one year 9 boy, 13-year-old Ryan Ward, a gruff-voiced, latte-drinking philosopher who wants to be a firefighter, a police officer or an actor.
Ruff
Definition:
(n.) A game similar to whist, and the predecessor of it.
(n.) The act of trumping, especially when one has no card of the suit led.
(v. i. & t.) To trump.
(n.) A muslin or linen collar plaited, crimped, or fluted, worn formerly by both sexes, now only by women and children.
(n.) Something formed with plaits or flutings, like the collar of this name.
(n.) An exhibition of pride or haughtiness.
(n.) Wanton or tumultuous procedure or conduct.
(n.) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; a ruffle.
(n.) A collar on a shaft ot other piece to prevent endwise motion. See Illust. of Collar.
(n.) A set of lengthened or otherwise modified feathers round, or on, the neck of a bird.
(n.) A limicoline bird of Europe and Asia (Pavoncella, / Philommachus, pugnax) allied to the sandpipers. The males during the breeding season have a large ruff of erectile feathers, variable in their colors, on the neck, and yellowish naked tubercles on the face. They are polygamous, and are noted for their pugnacity in the breeding season. The female is called reeve, or rheeve.
(n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon, having a ruff of its neck.
(v. t.) To ruffle; to disorder.
(v. t.) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
(v. t.) To hit, as the prey, without fixing it.
(n.) Alt. of Ruffe
Example Sentences:
(1) The ruff displayed a very high number of synapses with terminals showing a varied morphology.
(2) What this means is that a truly fascinating picture by Rubens – his fantastical, ingenious portrait of Marchesa aria Grimaldi, and her Dwarf (c 1606) in which a ruff collar takes on the proportions and complexity of the Milky Way and the beautiful Grimaldi is closely accompanied by her jowly retainer – is shown among a host of lesser works.
(3) Most recently, this research has been expanded to include a more thorough consideration of the geometric properties of bone in relationship to adult age changes (Martin and Atkinsin, 1977; Ruff and Hayes, 1983).
(4) The morphological characteristics of the synaptic contacts in the ruff of the cichlid fish Hemichromis bimaculatus were studies using the combined Golgi-electron microscope technique.
(5) The only exception was the ruff in Lake Yli-Kitka, where a sharp increase was encountered.
(6) Associate professor Tilman Ruff, co-president of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, said that with a ban treaty likely to be concluded next year, the world stood at an historic turning point.
(7) Strains with the highest fibrinolytic activity belonged to the Bacillus genus and were isolated from mineral detritus and ruff intestines in the Black Sea.
(8) "I've been feeling ruff," intimated the canine star.
(9) The rate of rhodopsin regeneration in decolorized rod outer segments ROS of pollock and ruff in the presence of exogenous 11Z-retinal is found to depend slightly on the temperature.
(10) We have previously isolated a murine UDP-Gal:beta-D-Gal(1,4)-D-GlcNAc alpha(1,3)-galactosyltransferase (alpha(1,3)-GT) cDNA (Larsen, R. D., Rajan, V. P., Ruff, M. M., Kukowska-Latallo, J., Cummings, R. D., and Lowe, J.
(11) Proteocephalus infection in the perch and ruff did not vary significantly according to the length of the fish in either area, except that no P. percae were found in perch smaller than 70 mm in the lake.
(12) There was a prominent seasonal variation in the occurrence of P. cernuae in the ruff in both areas, but especially in the lake, where no proteocephalids were found in the ruff in July-October.
(13) We have described previously a gene transfer system for the isolation of human DNA sequences that determine expression of a mammalian GDP-fucose: beta-D-galactoside-2-alpha-L-fucosyltransferase (alpha-(1,2)-fucosyltransferase) (Ernst, L. K., Rajan, V. P., Larsen, R. D., Ruff, M. M., and Lowe, J.
(14) These include pupillary ruff defects, iris sphincter transillumination, a characteristic whorl-like pattern of particulate pigment deposition on the iris sphincter, particulate pigment deposition on the peripheral iris and trabecular meshwork, and exfoliation material on the zonules and ciliary body.
(15) The neuropsychological application of the Ruff 2 and 7 Selective Attention Test as a measure of visual selective attention was investigated.
(16) ), at which time the chick host is known to experience malabsorption in the chick host (Ruff and Wilkins, 1980).
(17) I think cars have an extraordinary opportunity for cool design.” Wheego A US company that was spun out of Ruff & Tuff Electric Vehicles, a manufacturer of recreational electric vehicles such as golf carts.
(18) By using an extension of Ruff's analysis of the sequential model of open end-plate ion channel blockade, we have been able to show that the action of the chloramphenicols on end-plate current amplitude and time course can be explained by the combination of two distinct mechanisms.
(19) We have found that a mixture of either ferrous or ferric ions with hydrogen peroxide (Fenton and Ruff reagents) can serve as biomimetic models for cytochrome P-450 in hydroxylation, exposidation, sulfoxidation, and N-demethylation of various drugs.
(20) Aperture size is based on the average radius (30 mm) of the open face of the ruff.