sandpapery

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adjective

Resembling sandpaper.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

adjectivesandpapery (comparative more sandpapery, superlative most sandpapery)

comparative more sandpapery · superlative most sandpapery

  1. Resembling sandpaper.

    This name sounds pretty cool though. You like the way it rolls off your sandpapery tongue.

    2011,, Kazerad, Enter name, in: Prequel -or- Making A Cat Cry: The Adventure (webcomic), March 12 2011
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    TV talk-show host Les Crane annoyed plenty of people in the mid-'60s with his sandpapery communication style.

    1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 278

    A bruiser with a sandpapery voice, he was a reliable teller of corner-boy tales and, it seemed, a willing cog.

    2009 March 30, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivehaving the abrasive texture of sandpaper

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

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MLA

“sandpapery.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sandpapery. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sandpapery,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sandpapery.

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