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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
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Examples for "cruelty"
Examples for "cruelty"
1
There were also animals potentially at risk of cruelty at a rodeo.
Radio NZ
2
But when it comes to halal meat they talk of animal cruelty.
The Guardian
3
And They are cruel; cruelty is even in Their tread and expression.
On Nothing & Kindred Subjects
4
Hate and cruelty for the most part rule in the animal world.
Time and Change
5
The hardship, cruelty, and violence of the world had begun their education.
The Queen of Bedlam
1
I hope so, but I know too well the cruelness of fate.
The king of lies
2
His eyes were bright but crafty, and his features denoted both sensuality and cruelness.
The Lost Continent
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.

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