(a.) Unpleasant and repulsive to the sensibilities; austere; crabbed; morose; abusive; abusive; severe; rough.
(a.) Having violent contrasts of color, or of light and shade; lacking in harmony.
Example Sentences:
(1) Federal judges who blocked the bans cited harsh rhetoric employed by Trump on the campaign trail , specifically a pledge to ban all Muslims from entering the US and support for giving priority to Christian refugees, as being reflective of the intent behind his travel ban.
(2) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
(3) On referral to our clinic, his physical examination and tape recording were characterized by harsh inspiratory stridor.
(4) There are harsh lessons in football and we have learned some over the last week.” Two James Milner penalties and goals from the impressive Adam Lallana, Sadio Mané and Philippe Coutinho took Liverpool’s tally to 24 in eight games.
(5) The tougher external environment in 2015 means that our businesses and functions need to work … to take a number of measures in response to the harsh trading environment,” Dudley said, according to a memo reported by Reuters.
(6) I couldn't shake the harsh words from my head and worried about if, or when, they would spill over into real life.
(7) A former senior CIA official said the secretary of state at the time, Colin Powell, eventually was informed about the program and sat in meetings in which harsh interrogation techniques were discussed.
(8) The results indicate the presence of carbohydrate epitopes buried within collagenous polypeptides that are exposed by harsh denaturing conditions.
(9) Official papers released by the National Archives show that the "wets" – notably Jim Prior, Peter Walker, Ian Gilmour, Mark Carlisle, Lord Soames and Francis Pym – were able to demonstrate that a majority of the cabinet rejected as unnecessarily harsh Sir Geoffrey Howe's demands for further public spending cuts and tax cuts.
(10) We report a case of a 17 year old boy who was referred for evaluation of a large anterior mediastinal mass, causing dyspnea and cough and resulting in a harsh systolic murmur.
(11) I appeal to the king of Saudi Arabia to exercise his power to halt the public flogging by pardoning Mr Badawi, and to urgently review this type of extraordinarily harsh penalty.” Badawi’s case was one of several recent prosecutions of activists.
(12) • Very robust questioning, known as the harsh approach, could be banned – or if not "the approach should not include an analogy with a military drill sergeant".
(13) He said he did not oppose the criminalisation of homosexuality but said imprisonment and the death penalty are too harsh.
(14) Fellow opposition activists and sympathisers took the harsh sentence as a sign that heavy jail terms awaited the rest.
(15) Pledge news: harsh • 26 Jan , Darragh MacAnthony, Peterborough chairman on the "incredibly harsh" abuse by fans of manager Mark Cooper: "Nobody has given the bloke a chance.
(16) But initial fan reaction to the first teaser trailers was harsh.
(17) The probability of skin-galvanic reaction appearance was harshly decreased.
(18) Offshore detention with increased isolation in remote and harsh circumstances exaggerates that adversity.
(19) Pictures of the concentration camps served to reinforce the necessity of the war and its unavoidably harsh economic legacy.
(20) If you're in doubt of the impact this can have, "brand imagery" studies show that when participants smoke the exact same cigarettes presented in lighter coloured packs, or in packs with "mild" in the name, they rate the smoke as lighter and less harsh, simply through the power of suggestion.
Scabrous
Definition:
(a.) Rough to the touch, like a file; having small raised dots, scales, or points; scabby; scurfy; scaly.
(a.) Fig.: Harsh; unmusical.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other "waves" have swept the noughties: the brilliantly scabrous and extreme Asian wave, and the passionate Latin American wave.
(2) Genes such as Notch and scabrous, known to be involved in bristle development, also participate in this process, suggesting that the specification of ommatidial founder cells and the formation of sensory organs in the adult epidermis may involve a similar mechanism, that of lateral inhibition.
(3) The scabrous locus was cloned, and it appears to encode a secreted protein partly related to the beta and gamma chains of fibrinogen.
(4) Mutations and duplications of vestigial and scabrous alter the severity of phenotypes associated with Notch mutations and duplications in a manner that is essentially tissue- and allele-specific.
(5) Interactions are described between the Notch locus of Drosophila melanogaster, and two other loci, scabrous and vestigial, which respectively affect the eyes and wings.
(6) I knew it when I read Amadeus for the first time, I knew it when I read the screenplay of Four Weddings and a Funeral (I had a premonition that I was going to be the funeral), and I knew it some years before either of those illustrious projects when in 1976 – I'd only been acting for three years – an actor friend, Richard Quick, handed me an untitled, unbound manuscript which proved to be the scabrous Sixteen Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis adapted into a one-man show.
(7) American comic writing is at its most rewarding when at its most scabrous.
(8) These interactions indicate that the products of vestigial and scabrous act in conjunction with Notch to stimulate the differentiation of specific cell types.
(9) Who could have imagined our most senior judge quoting the scabrous 18th-century radical John Wilkes in aid of his argument?
(10) ), but it was the best, most scabrous fun to be had here.
(11) It was produced by the scabrous MP and journalist, John Wilkes , in 1763 – a reaction to a weekly newspaper called the Briton, funded by public money to promote the government's cause.
(12) His scabrous commentary on his own times was perceived as startlingly pertinent and laugh-out-loud funny: filthy and deeply, gloriously, politically incorrect, even for 1976, when the concept had yet to be articulated.
(13) It encompasses parts of the last intron and exon of the scabrous (sca) gene, which encodes a secreted protein involved in cellular communication during neurogenesis.
(14) "I'm not going to suddenly stop admiring his unique comic talent because I've switched teams," he says, adding that there ought to be a vehicle to show off his "scabrous, dark, smart working-class Scottish humour".
(15) (I can only assume they were referring to the brilliantly scabrous interview by Camilla Long , in which Hefner was described as "the Norma Desmond of sex", who "leaps on any innuendo with demonic hunger", and lives in a kind of "porno Disney" at his Playboy mansion in Los Angeles.)
(16) Experiments with sheep and cattle being fed scabrous and nonscabrous diets similar in chemical composition show that sheep are more resistant than cattle to the increase in intrarumen pressure, decline in rumen contraction amplitude, and decrease in rumen contraction frequency caused by nonscabrous diets.
(17) I don't mind the noise they make - scabrous electronics meets vaguely indie-sounding rock.
(18) 'Scabrous' carry-on ... Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive Strange as it may seem, they were once taken very seriously indeed.
(19) These parasites may cause inflammation, thickening, scabrous and severe itching.
(20) "I was re-reading Down and Out in Paris and London recently," says Steadman who is responsible for a marvellously scabrous illustrated edition of Animal Farm .