It's not just that the interruptions themselves are grating to watch: what's worse is the hostilities they create. Heather Schwedel
often: having a harsh or unpleasant sound
a grating voice/accent
If you just imagined that last quote spoken in Gottfried's grating, obnoxious yelling, that's now how you would hear him on the phone. Blake Hannon
The truck braked noisily with a grating shriek of steel. Mildred D. Taylor
gratinglyadverb
a gratingly harsh sound
Something in Orcutt's proprietary manner had irritated her at that first meeting, something she found gratingly egotistical in his expansive courtesy … Philip Roth
Their woodshed had been shielded with metal screen panels to keep out embers, and their doormats were made of metal grating. Ingfei Chen, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2022 Top with a final grating of Parmesan and the breadcrumbs, and garnish with the remaining anchovies.San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Aug. 2022 Some viewers applauded her magnetism and dry humor; others found her personality grating and her lack of boundaries unforgivable.The New Yorker, 22 May 2022 Providing reductive lessons in gay culture, the grating voice-over describes Fire Island as a gay Disney World with a community separating levels of attraction based on race, ethnicity, wealth and body types. Robert Daniels, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2022 The grating image mad Aggies used 20 years ago to spur changes? Brent Zwerneman, San Antonio Express-News, 12 July 2022 Many on the left today would find the newspaper’s accolade grating in its embrace of the classical West. Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 24 June 2022 But even the grating – albeit perky – bop with its dusting of sax and funk demonstrated John’s musical elasticity. Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 1 June 2022 Which raises a grating question: How long will the revulsion last—not only in Germany but in the U.S., Canada, Japan, Australia, even eternally neutral Switzerland, which has joined in? Josef Joffe, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2022 See More