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• s  unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound

• Mellow was a lie; raspy was authentic.
• By identifying the killer of his seven-months-pregnant wife as a raspy- voiced black man dressed in a jogging suit, Stuart tapped into assumptions about race and crime so powerful .
• As the older performer, played unforgettably by Bette Davis, begins to realize what's up that the ingenue's real goal is to supplant her on the stage she issues a raspy .

• grating
• gravelly
• rasping
• rough
• scratchy

News & Articles

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• Green Bay Packers: Running backs come in all shapes, sizes
  GREEN BAY, Wis. -- In his low, raspy tone, Eddie Lacy says he weighs 238 pounds.
  June 6, 2013 - Pioneer Press
• Can you find the big secret in this casino?
  When money gets involved, the disenrollments begin. "It’s starting now. Do you hear it?” Henry asks. The raspy chirp of a motorcycle engine intrudes upon the morning’s stillness, muffling songbirds in the avocado grove on the slope below Henry’s house in Rainbow. ...
  June 5, 2013 - San Diego Reader