Unfortunately, as with any muscle, your vocal folds will weaken over time, which is why a lot of elderly people have that similar shaky, raspy, or scratchy voice.

Scratchy toilet paper and dog shampoo, I say we barricade ourselves in here, live large for two weeks and go out in a hail of gotten fire.

We have to look forward to the next few years with excitement, though almost every new day is actually a scratchy six or below.

We have to earn a living, our partner is often scratchy, people are mean, there's the house to look after - but more existentially this is a journey of suffering.

But what about the scratchy monster?

Do you have long teeth and scratchy claws?

Because it's simply too painful to hope. Because we've realised that we have too much talent for identifying people who then go on to torment us. Because we've had enough of other people's madness and too much experience of our own. Because we end up feeling that humans are probably best to be enjoyed from a distance. Because recovery from a love that promised a future can rob us of too many of our remaining years. Because we've understood finally how properly difficult we are to live with. Because no one is as perfect as the many attractive strangers we will never speak to. Because longing alone can be so much more gratifying than a scratchy day-to-day reality with someone else. Because if we never love, we cannot be hurt. Because there has to be a limit to how many times we can be expected to take off our clothes in front of a stranger. And last and not least, because we didn't have the sort of childhood to develop the right instincts for this game.

Although this was an improvement, the nib was scratchy and couldn't control the flow of ink.

You actually have to go quite far down in order to come across some hard, scratchy plastics.

So, you won’t say Oh my god I feel scratchy, a perfect word to use for this kind of unpleasant