Synonyms for harshness

Grammar : Noun

Spell : hahrsh

Phonetic Transcription : hɑrʃ

Définition of harshness

Origin : late 14c., from harsh + -ness.

noun crudity

Example sentences :

I did not know, I said, that I had given occasion for this harshness.
Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson

He is accused of harshness to boys that were placed under his care.
Extract from : « The Letters of Robert Burns » by Robert Burns

And Edward Newbury in particular was thought to have behaved with harshness.
Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward

But Fyles remained unmoved, except that the harshness had gone out of his manner.
Extract from : « The Law-Breakers » by Ridgwell Cullum

There was a note of harshness in the voice that answered him.
Extract from : « The Snare » by Rafael Sabatini

The very speech and intonation of the one has melody, of the other harshness.
Extract from : « The Sportsman » by Xenophon

It had lost something of its harshness––something, too, of its decisiveness.
Extract from : « The Web of the Golden Spider » by Frederick Orin Bartlett

"I 'll sleep where I am," said he, with some harshness in his tone.
Extract from : « Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I (of II) » by Charles James Lever

Her voice was deep, almost harsh, and yet caressing in its harshness.
Extract from : « Under Western Eyes » by Joseph Conrad

But at length Rabbi Gershon was sorry for his sister, and repented him of his harshness.
Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill

Antonyms for harshness

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