as in hoarse
formed or pronounced in the throat
guttural sounds He made a guttural grunt when he tried to lift the desk.
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Recent Examples of guttural
Twigs’s vocals mutate between guttural and lithe, and her melodies tend to cut against the insistent grooves of the production.
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Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2025
Only a guttural scream in the song’s last 90 seconds can encapsulate the whirlwind of emotion from this cathartic banger.
—Stephen Daw, Billboard, 31 Jan. 2025
At BrewDog, Weber stood on his bar stool and screamed at the ceiling, unleashing a guttural howl.
—Justin Williams, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
This is evidenced by the crunching guitars and guttural wails of HARDY's blue-collar and rural fanbase-entrancing heavy metal, along with the emo ballads and radio-ready pop of under-30 pop-country darlings Megan Moroney and Bailey Zimmerman.
—Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 10 June 2024
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Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2025
Only a guttural scream in the song’s last 90 seconds can encapsulate the whirlwind of emotion from this cathartic banger.
—Stephen Daw, Billboard, 31 Jan. 2025
At BrewDog, Weber stood on his bar stool and screamed at the ceiling, unleashing a guttural howl.
—Justin Williams, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
This is evidenced by the crunching guitars and guttural wails of HARDY's blue-collar and rural fanbase-entrancing heavy metal, along with the emo ballads and radio-ready pop of under-30 pop-country darlings Megan Moroney and Bailey Zimmerman.
—Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 10 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for guttural
Adjective
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Davis and subsequently Streep — whose acceptance speech included a biographical survey of half the celebrities in the room and a call for resistance made in a voice gone hoarse by hollering at Women’s March protests the day before — know the only way out is through.—
Vulture Staff,
Vulture,
5 Jan. 2025
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While working through the audio issues, Billy Ray wandered the stage, sang a cappella, and left some viewers concerned about his hoarse voice and at times erratic behavior.—
Shania Russell,
EW.com,
28 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Voicing the bag is an older woman with a husky Tuscan timbre, which carries the whole way through its lifecycle onscreen.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
14 Feb. 2025
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My husky boy feet cemented into the concrete veranda.—
Diane Seuss,
Harper's Magazine,
2 July 2024
Adjective
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In the clip, the animals tussle on a bed, Moose making playful growling noises as he and Peach play-fight, Moose using his mouth and Peach giving it all with his paws.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
18 Feb. 2025
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The world's complex environmental issues demand open minds, fresh perspectives, and less growling.—
Keith Kloor,
Discover Magazine,
22 June 2012
Adjective
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The gruff but beloved Hackman was among the most accomplished actors of his generation, appearing as villains, heroes and antiheroes in dozens of dramas, comedies and action films from the 1960s until his retirement in the early 2000s.—
Susan Montoya Bryan,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Feb. 2025
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Ford’s actually relatively locked-in as the gruff but supportive Colonel Graff training the impressionable Ender (Asa Butterfield), who has to save the universe as all lads in these types of films tend to do.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
18 Feb. 2025
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“Guttural.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guttural. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.
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