- Noun: Asperity
- roughness of manner or of temper : harshness of behavior or speech that expresses bitterness or anger He asked with some asperity just what they were implying.
- rigor, severity … whether hearing herself described as a ‘lovely woman’ softened the asperity of her grief … — Charles Dickens
- roughness of surface : unevenness; also : a tiny projection from a surface the asperities of the tongue
- roughness of sound
- Synonyms:
- harshness
- sharpness
- abrasiveness
- roughness
- severity
- acerbity
- astringency
- tartness
- sarcasm
- Usage
- “Someone Trump deemed fit to be a spokesman for him appeared on television to put a tasty dressing on her employer’s word salad: “What good does it do to have a good nuclear triad if you’re afraid to use it?” To which a retired Army colonel appearing on the same program replied with amazed asperity: “The point of the nuclear triad is to be afraid to use the damn thing .”
- Encountered
- Washington Post editorial : Trump has a dangerous disability
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