gratingly

English

Etymology

From grating +‎ -ly.

Adverb

gratingly (comparative more gratingly, superlative most gratingly)

  1. With a grating sound.
  2. So as to grate or jar; in a tiresome or irritating manner.
    • 2025 September 30, Larry Sanger, “6. Reveal who Wikipedia’s leaders are.”, in larrysanger.org‎[1]:
      User pages in general tend to be gratingly cute.
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