Word: gruffer
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...Ambrose--a professor after all--I suspect that this momentary humiliation is a lot more painful than his gruffer-than-thou remarks let on. His students will be staring at him, wondering. But it gets worse. Clearly, he is an honest man who did some dishonest things. So the hardest time for him isn't now but rather occurred when he was putting his books together, looked hard at the pages with the stolen stuff on them and knew that he had a choice. Or maybe it was harder still to look at someone else's work, recognize that...
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