raspy
rasping
She is irreverent, lazy, and raspingly witty.
He had authority on stage, aided by a raspingly resonant baritone.
His raspingly bluesy voice captured the attention of a vast TV audience.
All of a sudden his eyes gleam, as he clears his throat, raspingly.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Describing qualities of the human voice
adenoidal
aloud
be dripping with somethingidiom
boomy
bray
breathy
brittle
chocolatey
fruity
multi-voiced
nasality
nasally
pitchy
purringly
soft-spoken
stentorian
strangulated
toned
toneless
wispily