scratchily
- adverb
- /ˈskrætʃɪli/
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rasposamente
- She wrote her notes scratchily, as if her pen was running out of ink.
Examples
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The old record player produced music scratchily, making it hard to enjoy the song.
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Yet his voice was scratchily respectful, and his fingers trembled.
Fiction book (1995) -
A Victrola melody of long ago, somewhat scratchily in one of its versions, chants not to him but to us:
Fiction book (1998) -
Thank you for a dad who got up at 5:30 every morning, rain, flu, or hangover notwithstanding, who taught me the habits of writing: that you sit down at the same time every day, and you just do it, scribble away scratchily on legal pads, tap tap tap away on the old Olympia.
Blog text (12) -
"It hasn't come your way, though," McMoran scratchily points out, and wonders what the obituarists have composed already about this overweight, obtuse man, for he has always considered Underfoot more than a little stupid even though he holds a chair, which McMoran doesn't.
Fiction book (1998) -
When he spoke, his voice came out scratchily, evidence of his lingering cold.
Synonyms
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8.2
In a harsh, rough voice that sounds unpleasant
In a way that makes a rough scraping sound like nails on wood or an old record
In a rough, grainy way like sand on skin
Antonyms
How Scratchy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word scratchily comes from the simple word scratch, which means 'to make small cuts or a rough scraping sound', plus the endings -y and -ly that turn it into a word showing how something is done. So, to do something scratchily is to do it in a rough, harsh, or scraping way, like writing with a nearly empty pen or a radio with damaged speakers.