Synonyms

1. cruelness
2. cruelty

Sentence Examples

1. His ebony hair curled around his collar and eased some of the harshness from his features but his close cropped-beard added a hint of menace.
2. Their harshness defied the humanity that should have been there.
3. On the other, she worried about the harshness of the punishment and was not sure if he would find it more upsetting than the incident itself.
4. That humid and congenial atmosphere which commonly adorned the view, veiling its harshness, and softening its asperities, had disappeared, the northern air poured across the waste of water so harsh and unmingled, that nothing was left to be conjectured by the eye, or fashioned by the fancy.
5. Defend himself when such extreme harshness as you are going to practice makes the man a very martyr!
6. I felt the harshness, the clawing humidity so incredibly suffocating to withstand.
7. Ruby was her everything, and she would give her all to protect the child from the harshness of the world.
8. It was as if the blood, no longer needed for the working of the heart, had gone to make the harshness of death as little rude as might be.
9. Was her blighted condition a result of the harshness of their lives, or were the prospects of a wilderness shepherd so poor that her husband could marry no better?
10. The harshness of age lined his face, the dynamism of youth long since lost, ruddy wine-reddened cheeks heightened by the contrast with the grey shroud of once-brown hair.