Definition of "gratingly" [gratingly]

• In a grating manner (adverb)

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• "It also echoes what was doubtless said about the Japanese during WW2 the “Arabic mind” was described by self-styled experts in terms gratingly reminiscent of the “Oriental mind”."
• "Yet despite clear efforts to soften the character, he's too ineffectively written and gratingly performed to work either as a troubled soul or a charming rogue, which means he doesn't work at all."
• "This is all done of course, in that gratingly condescending way (think and picture Chris Matthews) that has all the subtle effect of nails filing down on a chalkboard."