"abrasive" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used to describe people, behavior, or substances that are rough or harsh. For example: "He had an abrasive personality that made it difficult for others to be around him".
As party chair, she made enemies of MPs who found her manner abrasive and who doubted her grasp of the party machine.
In the very first second of opener On Sight, you are left alone in a field of distortion, a squelch of 303ish acid that rolls up and down a scale before settling into a loop of abrasive snarls.
Under the nom de guerre of Actress, Cunningham makes what seems, on the surface, to be fragmentary, abrasive techno music.
What was it like for such a self-confident, even abrasive, character, to be brought so low?
Oh yes, and she was a failure as Tory chairman, not safe on radio or TV, too abrasive for many MPs and activists, he says (correctly).
He is energetic, publicity-hungry, manipulative, outspoken and, yes, abrasive.
Staggeringly, it seems that few in Carlton's senior management team heeded any lessons from Malthouse's ugly departure at Collingwood, apparently bumbling their way along under the misguided assumption that the league's most abrasive and opinionated media performer would just silently endure this undignified coda to his record-breaking career.
He is a paranoid, abrasive class warrior and former sporting hero who leads a party with which he's fallen desperately out of love.
"She is rude, she is abrasive and you never see her at community functions, apart from when an election is on," says Jenny O'Connor, the Greens candidate who has run against Mirabella in every election since 2003, over a drink at a pub in Beechworth, a charming historic town not far from the NSW border.
"I was an impatient little bugger and often too abrasive.
He has the soul of an artist but generally the tongue of a sullen and abrasive schoolboy.
