raspingly

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English

Etymology

rasping +‎ -ly

Adverb

raspingly (comparative more raspingly, superlative most raspingly)

  1. In a rasping way.
    • 2008 June 15, Robert Macfarlane, “The Late Dictator”, in New York Times[1]:
      Ali is irreverent, lazy and raspingly sardonic, and his obvious fictional predecessor is Joseph Heller ’s Yossarian.

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