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If he were alive today, there would not be this sickeningly sweet, gratingly adorable, infantile "Elmo" thing.— MetaFilter Projects
You don't need to spend half an episode devoted to some rosy, blonde foreigner gratingly spurt out demeaning comments and 'desu wa's.— Wakaranai
For one whose single rhetorical flourish is the gratingly incessant appellation "My friends", John McCain has very few left.— Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed
Now Margie's jingle was not only content-free (its deepest line was: "Let's put Paul Coverdell in the Senate and put Wyche Fowler out!"), but gratingly annoying in a bad nursery rhyme sort of way.— Democratic Strategist
Owen Gleiberman, writing for Entertainment Weekly magazine on Oct. 24, called Hutz 'character a "gratingly boisterous Ukrainian gypsy with a Josef Stalin mustache … The movie is short on wisdom, but it might have gotten by if it had had better filth."— News on www.kyivpost.com
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