Grating and Hard

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Grating adjective - Disagreeable to one's aesthetic or artistic sense.

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Hard and grating are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Hard" instead an adjective "Grating".

Nearby Words: grate, grated, gratingly, grater

Hard adjective - Having or showing a lack of sympathy or tender feelings.

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Grating and hard are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Grating" instead an adjective "Hard".

Nearby Words: harden, hardship, hardy, hardly, hardness

This, coupled with a lot of erroneous remarks involving game systems being "just hard drives with games on them", as well as a couple of rather nasty implications about gamers being losers, leads to a very grating episode.

Source: Pac-Man Fever

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