The word "raspy" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a voice that sounds rough or scratchy, as in "Her raspy voice made it hard to understand her."
His bark is raspy and disgusting.
For over an hour they jostled around Mr Wu, glued to every word of his raspy Mandarin.
The idea that the raspy troubadour of '60s freedom anthems would go to a dictatorship and not sing those anthems, wrote a critic in the New York Times, "is a whole new kind of sellout".
Whether Studs was immortal or not, Dolores was.It happened all the time: writers attempted to anatomise Mr Terkel and, instead, got a deluge of other lives, recorded either in books ("Division Street", "Race", "American Dreams", "Hard Times") or in that gentle, raspy, baddie's voice of the radio shows.
Listeners who laid into Lana Del Rey for her botched Saturday Night Live performance are greedy for Adele's raspy voice and soulful embellishments.
In 1991 he released Thanksgiving Prayer, a short film that featured Burroughs enumerating the ills of contemporary American society in his signature raspy growl.
American actress who thrived onstage with an unfiltered personality, raspy voice, and acerbic wit that allowed for performances that were at once flashy and forthright.
George C. Scott, in full George Campbell Scott (born October 18 , 1927 Wise, Virginia, U.S. died September 22 , 1999 Westlake Village, California) American actor whose dynamic presence and raspy voice suited him to a variety of intense roles during his 40-year film career.
With his appealing screen presence shaved head, muscular physique, raspy voice, and rough-hewn charm Diesel was soon working regularly.
