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abrasive

1 adjective
     
a‧bra‧sive1
1 rude or unkind:
She was a tough girl with rather an abrasive manner.
2 having a rough surface, especially one that can be used to clean something or make it smooth:
Smooth down with a fine abrasive paper.
—abrasively adverb
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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