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STERN |
Harsh, severe |
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RIGOROUS |
Harsh, severe |
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ASTRINGENT |
Severe or harsh |
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IRON |
Rude; hard; harsh; severe. |
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DURE |
Hard; harsh; severe; rough; toilsome. |
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GRIL |
Harsh; hard; severe; stern; rough. |
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STIFF |
Harsh; disagreeable; severe; hard to bear. |
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RELENT |
To mollify ; to cause to be less harsh or severe. |
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SOFTEN |
To become soft or softened, or less rude, harsh, severe,
or obdurate. |
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GRUFF |
Of a rough or stern manner, voice, or countenance;
sour; surly; severe; harsh. |
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SHARP |
Cutting in language or import; biting; sarcastic;
cruel; harsh; rigorous; severe; as, a sharp rebuke. |
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INCLEMENT |
Not clement; destitute of a mild and kind temper; void
of tenderness; unmerciful; severe; harsh. |
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UNCHARITABLE |
Not charitable; contrary to charity; severe in
judging; harsh; censorious; as, uncharitable opinions or zeal. |
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EXACTING |
Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or
requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. |
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SEVERE |
Very strict in judgment, discipline, or government;
harsh; not mild or indulgent; rigorous; as, severe criticism; severe
punishment. |
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OPPRESSIVE |
Unreasonably burdensome; unjustly severe, rigorous, or
harsh; as, oppressive taxes; oppressive exactions of service; an
oppressive game law. |
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RUDE |
Violent; tumultuous; boisterous; inclement; harsh;
severe; -- said of the weather, of storms, and the like; as, the rude
winter. |
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MITIGATE |
To make less severe, intense, harsh, rigorous,
painful, etc.; to soften; to meliorate; to alleviate; to diminish; to
lessen; as, to mitigate heat or cold; to mitigate grief. |
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MITIGATION |
...gated;
abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive,
or calamitous; as, the mitigation of pain, grief, rigor, severity... |
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MILD |
...ce,
moderate in degree or quality; -- the opposite of harsh, severe,
irritating, violent, disagreeable, etc.; -- applied to persons and
thing... |
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INVECTIVE |
...erson;
a severe or violent censure or reproach; something uttered or written,
intended to cast opprobrium, censure, or reproach on another; a ha... |