Harshness

(noun.) the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions.

(noun.) the quality of being unpleasant (harsh or rough or grating) to the senses.

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• This harshness to one like me, who had been hitherto so spoiled and indulged, affected me with the deepest melancholy. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Old lady,' said her husband, but without harshness, 'if you cut in when requested not, I'll get a pillow and carry you out of the room upon it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Miss Mary--a well-looked, well-meant, and, on the whole, well-dispositioned girl--wore her complacency with some state, though without harshness. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The homely harshness of Miss Keeldar's salutation won her the ear of the whole throng in a second. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I had heard this woman termed plain, and I expected bony harshness and grimness--something large, angular, sallow. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• He declared, notwithstanding her harshness, he even called it coldness, that he loved her. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• He tried by indulgence to the grandson to make up for harshness to the elder George. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• He's my child, and I can't have his spirit broken by harshness. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• His father's harshness is not George's fault, sir. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• She described his disposition, such as she fancied it--quick and impatient of control or harshness, easily to be moved by love and kindness. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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