gruffly
Contents
English Expression
  1. n.:  by (the) head and ears (=by head and shoulders),  by (the) head and shoulders
  2. adj.:  rough
  3. adv.:  gruffly,  harshly,  rambunctiously,  rampantly,  roughly,  rudely,  ruggedly,  sultrily,  abruptly
Thesaurus
hard, Go land, suddenly, dump, swift, without permission, be (so) bold to, roughly, crassly, impolitely, cusudi, vulgarly
Containing Phrases
rudely, esp with an unpleasant replymanhandlemanhandle
grumpilyget the businesscriticize sb harshly
roughly