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Meanings of harshness in English
Excessive sternness.
Synonyms
Examples for "severity"
Examples for "severity"
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Several experts said the new rating exaggerated the severity of the crisis.
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Here is an example severity field using the new syntax and features:
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Nancy said with unusual severity, 'Don't ask so many questions, my girl.'
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Incidence and severity of common adverse events were consistent with previous reports.
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Statistics alone can no longer capture the severity of America's COVID-19 situation.
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Exercise training has different effects on arterial stiffness according to training modalities.
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Improvements in mobility were greater in the cases with severe preoperative stiffness.
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Background: Arterial stiffness is an independent cardiovascular risk factor in hypertensive individuals.
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However, how stiffness changes regulate vascular cell phenotype is not well understood.
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Background: Increased aortic stiffness contributes to systolic hypertension and increased cardiovascular risk.
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The stiffened hardness of the speaker in a measure affected the boy.
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The first confused hardness with progress; the second confused softness with progress.
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The Japanese struck an unexpected strain of hardness in the Korean character.
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Some of these approach the chrysoberyl and topaz in hardness and hue.
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None of the cynicism and hardness of Thackeray appear in her pages.
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Most scales to date have not been developed with sufficient rigor, however.
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Thus, understanding the substrain differences is important for scientific rigor and reproducibility.
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The tools didn't exist to interpret genetic data with the necessary rigor.
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In short, he helped to bring rigor, clarity, and method to chemistry.
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Tougher engineering rigor and recall-happy management may also increase the overall tab.
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Whatever its causes, lack of scientific rigour can have major commercial consequences.
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The rigour in England is mere puritanic hypocrisy, shortsightedness and racial self-esteem.
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The honesty and rigour of CRU as scientists are not in doubt.
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He gave British Shipbuilders a financial rigour that it had badly lacked.
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Clinical relevance and scientific rigour determined which articles we selected for review.
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It blew upon them in cruel menace of conquest, in piercing inclemency.
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The inclemency of the night was in one respect a great advantage.
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It was winter, and the inclemency of the weather precluded immediate movement.
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I was turning him over-tosoul corruption, to the inclemency of survival.
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What were rain and cold, the inclemency of the elements to them?
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There were very few people in the galaxy with Anton's systematic rigorousness.
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Always careless about historical rigorousness, he explained that the war is as much a case of Russian aggression as German aggression.
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The newspaper man made some comments on how much the teacher knew about journalism, although the school is noted for the rigorousness of its course.
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His clothing was very plain, even to severeness.
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During all these mortifications and the severeness of his industry, he appears to have become a prey to extraordinary visions and imaginations.
Usage of harshness in English
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And Edward Newbury in particular was thought to have behaved with harshness.
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To judge by the harshness displayed, there was the personal factor, too.
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The harshness of the climate did not give husbandry the same chances.
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There is no harshness in the vast hotels which I have recommended.
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There was a note of harshness in the voice that answered him.
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This old Frenchman has told the truth in all its naked harshness.
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It gave a flavor of strangeness without the harshness of real threat.
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And he censured the harshness with which the insurgents had been treated.
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When he went on it was with less harshness in his manner.
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They profess by harshness to have lessened the evil of the world.
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There was never a trace of harshness in his treatment of us.
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There shall be no harshness; nobody shall suffer more than they deserve.
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He enjoyed the way Pilar recoiled from the harshness of his tone.
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His product received none of the harshness of mechanical and mathematical accuracy.
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He stopped and squared his shoulders and the harshness left his voice.
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In such a mood, it was even easy to excuse his harshness.
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Catalan
Harshness through the time
Harshness across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common