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Example sentences for: gruffness

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They attribute his enduring popularity to his complex persona, which coupled upper-class urbanity with working-class gruffness and machismo with tenderness.
The cover profile of Sean Penn gushes over his cowboy independence, his gruffness, and his refusal to compromise his artistic principles for high-paying roles.