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Meanings of harshness in English

Portuguese
dureza
Catalan
rigor
Spanish
rigurosidad

Excessive sternness.

dureza
Portuguese
crueldade
Spanish
crueldad

The quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance.

crueldade
Portuguese
aspereza
Spanish
dureza

The quality of being unpleasant (harsh or rough or grating) to the senses.

aspereza

The roughness of a substance that causes abrasions.

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Examples for "abrasiveness"
Examples for "abrasiveness"
1
Abramson has long had a reputation for abrasiveness in her dealings with colleagues.
The Guardian
2
Soothing the scrapes caused by Barrett's abrasiveness was probably something she did fairly often.
Acts of faith
3
When they teamed up with Warhol, their abrasiveness was amplified into an all-out assault.
The Guardian
4
And if he lacked White Haven's brilliance, he also lacked the earl's occasional abrasiveness.
Ashes Of Victory
5
Against the backs of his eyeballs, red lights spun with the abrasiveness of razor-blade pinwheels.
Dark rivers of the heart
1
The softness of Lucas's undercoat upon his fingertips, the scratchiness of the wool blanket.
A fierce radiance: a novel
2
Beyond the scratchiness and personal issues, we seem to have powered through the worst.
The South African
3
But she remembered little of his face-onlya scratchiness, from when she'd rubbed her cheek against his.
Dreadnought
4
Facebook Twitter Pinterest The screen filter applies lens glare and physical scratchiness to the display, helping further cement the VHS vibe.
The Guardian
5
Touched by the fellow's concern, he leaned his cheek against the horse's forehead, savoring the coarse scratchiness of the animal's forelock.
Gingham bride
Usage of harshness in English
1
And Edward Newbury in particular was thought to have behaved with harshness.
The Coryston Family / A Novel
2
To judge by the harshness displayed, there was the personal factor, too.
Greece and the Allies, 1914-1922
3
The harshness of the climate did not give husbandry the same chances.
The Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters o...
4
There is no harshness in the vast hotels which I have recommended.
Yet Again
5
There was a note of harshness in the voice that answered him.
The Snare
6
This old Frenchman has told the truth in all its naked harshness.
The Bastonnais / Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775...
7
It gave a flavor of strangeness without the harshness of real threat.
A Winter Haunting
8
And he censured the harshness with which the insurgents had been treated.
Bouvard and Pécuchet: A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life, par...
9
When he went on it was with less harshness in his manner.
The Bat
10
They profess by harshness to have lessened the evil of the world.
The Well of Saint Clare
11
There was never a trace of harshness in his treatment of us.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
12
There shall be no harshness; nobody shall suffer more than they deserve.
Dawn
13
He enjoyed the way Pilar recoiled from the harshness of his tone.
Ahsoka
14
His product received none of the harshness of mechanical and mathematical accuracy.
Inca Land: Explorations in the Highlands of Peru
15
He stopped and squared his shoulders and the harshness left his voice.
The Unspeakable Gentleman
16
In such a mood, it was even easy to excuse his harshness.
A Daughter of Fife
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
Less common