sandpapery
English
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editsandpapery (comparative more sandpapery, superlative most sandpapery)
- Resembling sandpaper.
- 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 278:
- TV talk-show host Les Crane annoyed plenty of people in the mid-'60s with his sandpapery communication style.
- 2009 March 30, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times[1]:
- A bruiser with a sandpapery voice, he was a reliable teller of corner-boy tales and, it seemed, a willing cog.