Word of the Day – Asperity

• Noun: Asperity
  1. 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.
  2. rigor, severity    … whether hearing herself described as a ‘lovely woman’ softened the asperity of her grief … — Charles Dickens
  3. roughness of surface :  unevenness; also :  a tiny projection from a surface the asperities of the tongue
  4. roughness of sound
• Synonyms:
  1. harshness
  2. sharpness
  3. abrasiveness
  4. roughness
  5. severity
  6. acerbity
  7. astringency
  8. tartness
  9. 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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