growly

WERTHEIMER: I love the way that you pick up on the kind of growly quality in Mike's voice when you play the guitar way down low.

Six-String Creation: The Derek Trucks Band 2006

Perhaps it is high pitched and squeaky; or, on the other hand, a "growly" bass suggestive of ill-nature.

Certain Success Norval A. Hawkins

His vocals are still death metal, though not as "growly" I would say.

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Here, his mother’s first act was to take a clean little nightshirt from a drawer, sit him up, slip off the wet one and pop the dry over his head, he opening his eyes for a second, unseeingly, making a kind of growly noise in his throat, and dropping back fast asleep, before she had finished with the buttons.

The End of a Childhood 2003

But the voice that emerges is unmistakably the dark lord's: growly and profane and black with comedy.

Keith Richards's 'Life': An unexpectedly clear look at years as a Rolling Stone Lou Bayard 2010

But the voice that emerges is unmistakably the dark lord's: growly and profane and black with comedy.

Keith Richards's 'Life': An unexpectedly clear look at years as a Rolling Stone Lou Bayard 2010

With tiny whines and thin whimperings, with whiffs and whuffs and growly sorts of noises down in his throat, he would try to tell her somewhat of his tale.

CHAPTER XXII 2010

"Come Around Sundown," the band's fifth album, is thick with growly, momentous rock songs that arrive in an era dominated by magnificent pop stars (Lady Gaga), magniloquent rap stars (Lil Wayne) and mash-ups of the two (Kanye West).

Kings of Leon bemoan their rock stardom on latest album, 'Come Around Sundown' Chris Richards 2010

Enter the burglars, led by the scary, skeevy Ben Mendelsohn Animal Kingdom, a group that also includes the growly Dash Mihok and the jittery Cam Gigandet.

Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Trespass Marshall Fine 2011

The growly riff that Mr. Wilson created was so catchy that trumpeter Ray Wetzel of Stan Kenton's band lifted it in 1945 for his own "Intermission Riff," which became a signature hit for Kenton.

Swing's Forgotten King Marc Myers 2011