Crossword-Solution: HARSHNESS 9 letters, 83 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

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Word Word Type Definition
Harshness n. The quality or state of being harsh.

We have 83 clues for the answer “HARSHNESS”

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the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions 1 answer
the quality of being unpleasant to the senses 1 answer
stridence 1 answer
Cruelness; roughness 1 answer
steeliness 4 answers
mordancy 9 answers
ADVANCING IN SEVERITY 9 answers
churlishness 10 answers
quick passions 10 answers
rigour 10 answers
surliness 11 answers
crossness 11 answers
Give pain. 12 answers
Hot temper 12 answers
painfulness 13 answers
Sourness 18 answers
irascibility 20 answers
waterlessness 29 answers
lonesomeness 29 answers
inhospitableness 29 answers
infertility 29 answers
drabness 29 answers
desolateness 29 answers
desertedness 29 answers
starkness 30 answers
purposelessness 30 answers
bleakness 30 answers
dreariness 31 answers
high hand 31 answers
ALONENESS 31 answers
bareness 31 answers
cheerlessness 31 answers
Nakedness 32 answers
loneliness 34 answers
aridity 34 answers
enviousness 35 answers
blankness 35 answers
virulence 35 answers
dryness 35 answers
astringency 36 answers
mara 36 answers
Ordeal 36 answers
Tartness 38 answers
Baldness 40 answers
Solitude 40 answers
insecurity 41 answers
Acidity 41 answers
Bitterness 44 answers
Spite 44 answers
pungency 44 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with HARSHNESS (5)

Alexandra I II III TO THE MEMORY OF SARAH ORNE JEWETT IN WHOSE BEAUTIFUL AND DELICATE WORK THERE IS THE PERFECTION THAT ENDURES PRAIRIE SPRING Evening and the flat land, Rich and sombre and always silent; The miles of fresh-plowed soil, Heavy and black, full of strength and harshness; The growing wheat, the growing weeds, The toiling horses, the tired men; The long empty roads, Sullen fires of sunset, fading, The eternal, unresponsive sky.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
Philip English, a character well-known in early Salem annals, was among those who suffered from John Hathorne’s magisterial harshness, and he maintained in consequence a lasting feud with the old Puritan official.
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993
Don't you think it would be wise to tell your investors before they sink another $300 Million into a black hole from which there is no escape?" The aristocratic British accent softened the harshness of the words, but not the auger of the meaning.
Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993
And yet, without a harshness which was foreign to his nature, it was impossible to refuse to listen to the story of the young and beautiful woman, tall, graceful, and queenly, who presented herself at Baker Street late in the evening, and implored his assistance and advice.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1994
But that she may impute to us any harshness or want of politeness, let us tell her that there is an ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry; of which there are many proofs, such as the saying of 'the yelping hound howling at her lord,' or of one 'mighty in the vain talk of fools,' and 'the mob of sages circumventing Zeus,' and the 'subtle thinkers who are beggars after all'; and there are innumerable other signs of ancient enmity between them.
Plato's Republic Plato 2008

Quotes with HARSHNESS (3)

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
Plato
Women are delicate creatures. Fragile. Gentle. Made by God to be sheltered from the harshness of this world..Morgan Mac Donnell
Teresa Medeiros A Whisper of Roses
Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it. God's saving love in Christ, however, is marked by both radical truthfulness about who we are and yet also radical, unconditional commitment to us. The merciful commitment strengthens us to see the truth about ourselves and repent. The conviction and repentance moves u…
Timothy J. Keller The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
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Appears in: New Yorker, NYT.

Used 2 times in crossword archives (2003–2023).