caustic, confrontational, combative, brusque, coarse, irascible, pugnacious, gruff, forceful, bombastic, acerbic, irritating, uncompromising, temperamental, corrosive, emollient, brash, snarly, brusk, truculent, acidic, outspoken, prickly, cantankerous, ornery, blunt, brittle, arrogant, sandpapery, strident, argumentative, vituperative, jocular, mouthy, obnoxious, sarcastic, opinionated, affable, astringent, antagonistic, undiplomatic, humorless, profane, phlegmatic, likeable, brutish, roughened, snappish, flamboyant, waspish, bellicose, loose cannon, uncouth, feisty, barbed, unshowy, emery cloth, boorish, insulative, intemperate, pedantic, hotheaded, disputatious, growly, plainspoken, earthy, edgy, retentive, vitriolic, pushy, flinty, spiteful, easygoing, combustible, disagreeable, choleric, genial, contemptuous, egotistical, viscous, unsmooth, surly, fiery, nasal twang, overloud, unforgiving, unstatesmanlike, bristly, rude, splenetic, nasty, bossy, ductile, absorbent, egoistical, friable, nonabrasive, overbearing, cocky, rumbustious, condescending, cementitious, abrasives, filler, solvent, lubricant, adsorbent, anesthetic, fertiliser, fertilizer, anaesthetic, detergent, fuel, preservative, solder, anticoagulant, fertilizers, lubricants, nutrient, adhesive, disinfecting, hygroscopic, antiseptic, insecticidal, proofing, repellent, durable, oxidizing, absorbing, corrosion, filtering, fungicidal, polishing, repellant, absorptive

carborundum, emery paper, sandpaper, steel wool

bauxite, built, carborundum, contentious, corundom, corundum, emery, emery wheel, fashion, garnet, grinding wheel, ground, ground glass, pumice, pumice stone, reinforced, sandpapery, scouring pad, silicon carbide, steel wool, wire wool

material, stuff

abradant, abrasive material, harsh, rough, scratchy