Harshness is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for HARSHNESS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being harsh
• the quality of being unpleasantly rough or jarring to the senses
• the quality of being cruel or severe
• the condition of being difficult to live in
• The quality or state of being harsh.
• the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions
• the quality of being unpleasant (harsh or rough or grating) to the senses
• the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance
• excessive sternness
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• having a coarse uneven surface that is rough or unpleasant to the touch

Words related to HARSHNESS

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Words that contain HARSHNESS

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How to use HARSHNESS in a sentence

• Californians are often blamed for their harshness towards the Chinese, and the way in which they have clamored from time to time for more stringent exclusion laws.
• In place of the kindness and indulgence to which she had been accustomed, she was now treated with harshness and cruelty.
• This transaction has been the subject of complaint on the part of some foreign powers, and has been characterized with more of harshness than of justice.
• It is not necessary, I tell you, all this harshness and brutality.
• Boehme calls them harshness, attraction, and anguish, which in modern terms are contraction, expansion, and rotation.
• The harshness of nature is strongly reflected in all faces.
• Hence it came about that he who at first had hardly one sinister voice against him was punished with general harshness.
• All this was plainly to be seen in the stern repose of her countenance and the stiff harshness of her figure.
• It could not be said that he was not ambitious He would have desired success in order to secure a kindly recognition and to obviate the jars and harshness of life.
• Cora felt sorry for him, despite all his harshness.
• He does not like children, and is satisfied to have Amy back, and is trying to atone for his former harshness.
• The designs are richer without being so glaring as many of the tile effects, and the wood seems to have less harshness.
• There can be no doubt that, although he was treated with undue harshness, his claims had no real foundation.
• The regulations issued with regard to the tenure of land in some of the new irrigation colonies were probably unwise and carried out with some harshness.
• The harshness of their previous meeting had gone out of it.
• Notable, too, is the tendency, later more marked, to contrast the inconsiderate harshness of men with the patient humility of women.
• Harshness roused first incredulous wonder, then a storm of indignant tears, and after a time a proud, defiant resistance, cold and hard as iron.
• But a very natural outcome of a sunny nature, for years held down by unhappiness and the harshness of an outgrown creed.
• She was little older than Archange, but her features showed a stoical harshness in the firelight.
• And this South African excursion was the last and worst illustration of his wilful cruel harshness to her.
• The harshness and bitterness of his feelings melted out of his heart, and left him to answer his letters in a spirit quite changed from that which had just possessed him.
• This harshness irritated them so much that they left us in an ill-humor, and we therefore kept on our guard against any insult.
• Search a hindrance, see obligations resemble china, see no more tunes and no more harshness and hardly any virgin.
• As she saw him grow up, and no longer require so much care, she began to sacrifice him, without intentional harshness, but merely because she felt like that.
• Avarice, unbridled by the fear of God, leads by a short cut to harshness and disregard of the claims of others.
• As long as He is what He is, covetousness and its child, harshness to the needy, will be sin against Him, and be avenged sooner or later.

Similar words containing HARSHNES without suffix s

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