gratingly
Adverb
Meaning
in a harsh and grating manner
Source: WordNetSynonyms
grimly
annoyingly
jarringly
shrilly
huskily
aggravatingly
gutturally
mincingly
harshly
stridently
trebly
vexingly
irritatingly
unmusically
tunelessly
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Examples
her voice fell gratingly on our ears
Bill is tasked with being partners with Slim, the psychopathic, "covetous, gratingly pansexual Irish bastard" who paid to him Bill and his wife killed, and it starts about how you'd expect.
The music goes through fitful episodes, with percolating riffs, pummeling percussion and gratingly dissonant clusters.