Asperity is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ASPERITY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• roughness
• harshness of tone or manner
• harsh qualities or conditions
• roughness of temper
• Roughness of surface; unevenness; -- opposed to smoothness.
• Roughness or harshness of sound; that quality which grates upon the ear; raucity.
• Roughness to the taste; sourness; tartness.
• Moral roughness; roughness of manner; severity; crabbedness; harshness; -- opposed to mildness.
• Sharpness; disagreeableness; difficulty.
• something hard to endure
• harshness of manner
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• acrimony

Words related to ASPERITY

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How to use ASPERITY in a sentence

• In every line of the Divine Comedy we discern the asperity which is produced by pride struggling with misery.
• Nothing could soften the asperity of her temper, or restrain her unreasonable exactions.
• I will teach laborious industry to look without envy and without asperity upon those above them.
• Disappointment and misfortune are calculated to inspire asperity into the gentlest heart.
• One day when he had treated him with too much asperity.
• Really, gentlemen, when one hears of such things as these, it becomes a duty, perhaps, a little to soften that extreme asperity with which most men speak of murder.
• I would soften the asperity of the mobs, and bring into our politics a deeper and broader humanity.
• There was no asperity in her voice now, only puzzled helplessness.
• Another device for improving the effect of a cold idea, is, to embody it in a verse of unusual harshness and asperity.
• A man, whose original principles had been so full of rectitude and honour, could not fail at some time to recollect the injustice of his conduct, and to remit his asperity.
• In some instances, however, he departed from this apathetic line of conduct, and turned upon her with a degree of asperity and violence that was as impetuous as it was decisive.
• Their anger found vent in terms of unpardonable asperity.
• Him also, Agamemnon, King of men, In accents of asperity reproved.
• His instinct had told him, even when a child, that the asperity of Miss Inehly was merely the humorous mask of a gentle and sensitive heart.
• He had, indeed, reason to talk with asperity on the contract by which the Hanoverians had been taken into the pay of Great Britain.
• In the beginning of June the French king declared war in his turn against his Britannic majesty, and his declaration was couched in terms of uncommon asperity.
• However, I am somewhat surprised he should entertain such a particular asperity against me, as I never did him a favor.
• Greyfield returned, with a touch of that asperity that was sometimes noticeable in her utterances.
• There might have been nephews and nieces to soften the asperity of his later years.
• This consciousness mingled an ingredient of asperity with their genuine pity for May.
• Mellicent to moderate the asperity with which she spoke and acted towards the triumphant party.
• Unpleasant as irony may sometimes be, there need not go with it, and in this instance there did not go with it, the smallest real asperity of temper.
• The trouble with them is that they are just a little too good, and when attacked defend themselves with asperity.
• The feud betwixt the Outlaw and the Scotts may serve to explain the asperity, with which the chieftain of that clan is handled in the ballad.
• Portheris remarked, with some asperity, that she hoped Mrs.
• Crawford for the Presidency were being discussed, and party asperity sought to slay its victims, Ninian Edwards, a senator of Congress from Illinois, charged Mr.
• There is no scolding, no asperity of language, no irritation of manner about them.

Similar words containing ASPER without suffix ity

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