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- short shrift
collapse - brief and unsympathetic treatment
- a brief and unsympathetic rejection; "they made short shrift of my request" related words >
- cruelty,
- flat refusal,
- flintiness,
- hardness,
- harshness,
- heartlessness,
- inclemency,
- inexorableness,
- mercilessness,
- pitilessness,
- point-blank refusal,
- rebuff,
- relentlessness,
- remorselessness,
- repulse,
- ruthlessness,
- summary negative,
- tender mercies,
- uncompassionateness,
- unfeelingness,
- unforgivingness,
- unmercifulness,
- unremorsefulness,
- unsympatheticness,
- unyieldingness
- animality,
- atrociousness,
- barbarity,
- barbarousness,
- beastliness,
- bestiality,
- bloodiness,
- bloodlust,
- bloodthirst,
- bloodthirstiness,
- bloody-mindedness,
- brutality,
- brutalness,
- brutishness,
- cannibalism,
- cruelness,
- cruelty,
- ferociousness,
- ferocity,
- fiendishness,
- fierceness,
- flintiness,
- hardness,
- harshness,
- heartlessness,
- inclemency,
- inexorableness,
- inhumaneness,
- inhumanity,
- mercilessness,
- pitilessness,
- relentlessness,
- remorselessness,
- sadism,
- sadistic cruelty,
- sanguineousness,
- savagery,
- short shrift,
- tender mercies,
- truculence,
- uncompassionateness,
- unfeelingness,
- unforgivingness,
- unmercifulness,
- unremorsefulness,
- unsympatheticness,
- unyieldingness,
- vandalism,
- viciousness,
- violence,
- wanton cruelty
- cruelty
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- a cruel act; a deliberate infliction of pain and suffering
- the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance
- feelings of extreme heartlessness related words >
- animality,
- atrociousness,
- atrocity,
- barbarity,
- barbarousness,
- beastliness,
- bestiality,
- bloodiness,
- bloodlust,
- bloodthirst,
- bloodthirstiness,
- bloody-mindedness,
- brutality,
- brutalness,
- brutishness,
- cannibalism,
- cruelness,
- ferociousness,
- ferocity,
- fiendishness,
- fierceness,
- flintiness,
- hardness,
- harshness,
- heartlessness,
- inclemency,
- inexorableness,
- inhumaneness,
- inhumanity,
- mercilessness,
- pitilessness,
- relentlessness,
- remorselessness,
- ruthlessness,
- sadism,
- sadistic cruelty,
- sanguineousness,
- savagery,
- short shrift,
- tender mercies,
- truculence,
- uncompassionateness,
- unfeelingness,
- unforgivingness,
- unmercifulness,
- unremorsefulness,
- unsympatheticness,
- unyieldingness,
- vandalism,
- viciousness,
- violence,
- wanton cruelty
- absolute zero,
- acuteness,
- algidity,
- animality,
- astringency,
- atrocity,
- austerity,
- barbarity,
- bitterness,
- bleakness,
- bloodlust,
- briskness,
- brutality,
- chill,
- chilliness,
- cold,
- coldness,
- cool,
- coolness,
- coolth,
- crispness,
- cruelty,
- cryogenics,
- cryology,
- decrease in temperature,
- destructiveness,
- extremity,
- ferociousness,
- fierceness,
- flintiness,
- force,
- freezing point,
- freshness,
- frigidity,
- frostiness,
- furiousness,
- gelidity,
- grimness,
- hardness,
- harshness,
- heartlessness,
- iciness,
- impetuosity,
- inexorableness,
- inhumanity,
- intense cold,
- intensity,
- keenness,
- low temperature,
- malignity,
- mercilessness,
- mindlessness,
- murderousness,
- nip,
- nippiness,
- pitilessness,
- rawness,
- relentlessness,
- remorselessness,
- rigor,
- roughness,
- ruthlessness,
- savagery,
- severity,
- sharp air,
- sharpness,
- short shrift,
- sternness,
- stringency,
- tender mercies,
- terrorism,
- uncompassionateness,
- unfeelingness,
- unforgivingness,
- ungentleness,
- unmercifulness,
- unremorsefulness,
- unsympatheticness,
- unyieldingness,
- vandalism,
- vehemence,
- venom,
- viciousness,
- violence,
- virulence
- hardness
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- the quality of being difficult to do; "he assigned a series of problems of increasing hardness"; "the ruggedness of his exams caused half the class to fail"
- the property of being rigid and resistant to pressure; not easily scratched; measured on Mohs scale related words >
- Philistinism,
- abstruseness,
- arduousness,
- armor,
- asperity,
- astringency,
- austerity,
- bothersomeness,
- burdensomeness,
- callosity,
- callousness,
- callus,
- closeness,
- cohesiveness,
- coldbloodedness,
- coldheartedness,
- coldness,
- compactness,
- complexity,
- complication,
- congestedness,
- congestion,
- consistence,
- consistency,
- crabbedness,
- crampedness,
- crowdedness,
- cruelty,
- deepness,
- denseness,
- density,
- difficultness,
- difficulty,
- durability,
- esoterica,
- firmness,
- flintiness,
- formidable defenses,
- fundamentalism,
- gluiness,
- grimness,
- hairiness,
- hard heart,
- hard shell,
- hardenedness,
- hardheartedness,
- hardiness,
- hardness of heart,
- hardship,
- harshness,
- heart of stone,
- heartlessness,
- impenetrability,
- impenitence,
- impenitentness,
- impermeability,
- imperviousness,
- impliability,
- imporosity,
- inclemency,
- incompressibility,
- induration,
- inexorability,
- inexorableness,
- inflexibility,
- infrangibility,
- insensitiveness,
- insensitivity,
- insolence,
- intricacy,
- inuredness,
- irrepentance,
- jammedness,
- knottiness,
- laboriousness,
- lastingness,
- leatherlikeness,
- mercilessness,
- nonrepentance,
- obduracy,
- obdurateness,
- obstinacy,
- onerousness,
- oppressiveness,
- orthodoxy,
- pitilessness,
- precisianism,
- profoundness,
- profundity,
- purism,
- puritanism,
- reconditeness,
- relative density,
- relentlessness,
- remorselessness,
- resistance,
- rhinoceros hide,
- rigidity,
- rigidness,
- rigor,
- rigorousness,
- ropiness,
- roughness,
- ruggedness,
- ruthlessness,
- seared conscience,
- severity,
- short shrift,
- solidity,
- solidness,
- soundness,
- specific gravity,
- spissitude,
- stability,
- stamina,
- staunchness,
- sternness,
- stiffness,
- stoniness,
- stoutness,
- strength,
- strenuousness,
- stringency,
- stringiness,
- stubbornness,
- sturdiness,
- temper,
- tenacity,
- tender mercies,
- thick skin,
- thickness,
- toilsomeness,
- toughness,
- troublesomeness,
- unabjectness,
- unbendingness,
- unbreakability,
- unbreakableness,
- uncompassionateness,
- uncompromisingness,
- uncontriteness,
- unfeeling,
- unfeelingness,
- unforgivingness,
- ungentleness,
- unmercifulness,
- unnaturalness,
- unrelentingness,
- unremorsefulness,
- unresponsiveness,
- unsympatheticness,
- unyieldingness,
- vicissitude,
- vigor,
- viscidity,
- viscosity,
- viscousness,
- vitality
- relentlessness
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- mercilessness characterized by an unwillingness to relent or let up; "the relentlessness or their pursuit" related words >
- act of God,
- adamantness,
- application,
- ardor,
- assiduity,
- assiduousness,
- bulldog tenacity,
- certainty,
- commitment,
- concentration,
- constancy,
- cruelty,
- decidedness,
- decision,
- decisiveness,
- dedication,
- definiteness,
- determinateness,
- determination,
- determinedness,
- devotion,
- diligence,
- dogged perseverance,
- doggedness,
- dourness,
- earnestness,
- endurance,
- energeticalness,
- energy,
- engrossment,
- fate,
- fatefulness,
- fervor,
- fidelity,
- firmness,
- flintiness,
- force majeure,
- fundamentalism,
- grimness,
- hard-bittenness,
- hard-nosedness,
- hardness,
- harshness,
- heartlessness,
- immovability,
- immutability,
- implacability,
- impliability,
- inclemency,
- indefatigability,
- indefeasibility,
- industriousness,
- industry,
- inelasticity,
- ineluctability,
- inescapableness,
- inevasibleness,
- inevitability,
- inevitable accident,
- inevitableness,
- inexorability,
- inexorableness,
- inflexibility,
- insistence,
- insistency,
- intransigeance,
- intransigence,
- intransigency,
- intransigentism,
- irreconcilability,
- irrevocability,
- laboriousness,
- loyalty,
- mercilessness,
- necessity,
- obduracy,
- obdurateness,
- obstinacy,
- orthodoxy,
- patience,
- patience of Job,
- permanence,
- perseverance,
- persistence,
- persistency,
- pertinaciousness,
- pertinacity,
- pitilessness,
- plodding,
- plugging,
- precisianism,
- predetermination,
- preoccupation,
- purism,
- puritanism,
- purpose,
- purposefulness,
- remorselessness,
- resoluteness,
- resolution,
- resolve,
- resolvedness,
- rigidity,
- rigidness,
- rigor,
- rigorism,
- rigorousness,
- ruthlessness,
- sedulity,
- sedulousness,
- self-will,
- seriousness,
- short shrift,
- sincerity,
- single-mindedness,
- singleness of purpose,
- slogging,
- stability,
- stamina,
- staying power,
- steadfastness,
- steadiness,
- steeliness,
- sternness,
- stick-to-itiveness,
- stiff temper,
- stiffness,
- strenuousness,
- stubbornness,
- sureness,
- tenaciousness,
- tenacity,
- tender mercies,
- tirelessness,
- total commitment,
- toughness,
- unalterability,
- unavoidable casualty,
- unavoidableness,
- unbendingness,
- unchangeability,
- uncompassionateness,
- uncompromisingness,
- uncontrollability,
- undeflectability,
- unfeelingness,
- unforgivingness,
- ungivingness,
- unmercifulness,
- unpreventability,
- unrelentingness,
- unremittingness,
- unremorsefulness,
- unsparingness,
- unswerving attention,
- unsympatheticness,
- unyieldingness,
- vehemence,
- vis major,
- will,
- zealousness
- severity
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- excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp" related words >
- Spartan simplicity,
- Spartanism,
- abruptness,
- absolute zero,
- absoluteness,
- abusiveness,
- accuracy,
- acerbity,
- acidity,
- acidulousness,
- acridity,
- acrimony,
- acuteness,
- aggressiveness,
- algidity,
- aloofness,
- animality,
- asceticism,
- asperity,
- astringency,
- atrocity,
- attention to fact,
- austerity,
- authoritarianism,
- baldness,
- barbarity,
- bareness,
- bearishness,
- beastliness,
- bite,
- bitingness,
- bitterness,
- bleakness,
- bloodlust,
- bluntness,
- boorishness,
- brashness,
- briskness,
- brusqueness,
- brusquerie,
- brutality,
- burdensomeness,
- candor,
- care for truth,
- causticity,
- chill,
- chilliness,
- churlishness,
- cold,
- coldness,
- common speech,
- cool,
- coolness,
- coolth,
- correctness,
- crispness,
- crudeness,
- cruelty,
- crustiness,
- cryogenics,
- cryology,
- curtness,
- cuttingness,
- decrease in temperature,
- delicacy,
- demandingness,
- despotism,
- destructiveness,
- directness,
- discipline,
- edge,
- elementarity,
- exactingness,
- exactitude,
- exactness,
- exigency,
- extremity,
- faithfulness,
- fastidiousness,
- faultlessness,
- ferociousness,
- ferocity,
- fidelity,
- fierceness,
- fineness,
- flawlessness,
- flintiness,
- force,
- frankness,
- freezing point,
- freshness,
- frigidity,
- frostiness,
- fundamentality,
- furiousness,
- fury,
- gelidity,
- gravity,
- grievousness,
- grimness,
- grip,
- gruffness,
- hardness,
- harshness,
- homespun,
- homogeneity,
- household words,
- iciness,
- impetuosity,
- inclemency,
- inexorability,
- inexorableness,
- inflexibility,
- inhumanity,
- inornateness,
- integrity,
- intense cold,
- intensity,
- keenness,
- leanness,
- literalism,
- literality,
- literalness,
- low temperature,
- malignity,
- mathematical precision,
- matter-of-factness,
- meanness,
- mercilessness,
- meticulousness,
- mindlessness,
- modesty,
- monasticism,
- monism,
- mordacity,
- mordancy,
- murderousness,
- nastiness,
- naturalness,
- niceness,
- nicety,
- nip,
- nippiness,
- obduracy,
- obdurateness,
- oneness,
- onerousness,
- openness,
- oppression,
- oppressiveness,
- painfulness,
- perfection,
- piquancy,
- pitilessness,
- plain English,
- plain speaking,
- plain speech,
- plain style,
- plain words,
- plainness,
- poignancy,
- point,
- preciseness,
- precision,
- primitiveness,
- prosaicness,
- prosiness,
- pungency,
- punishment,
- punitiveness,
- purity,
- rawness,
- refinement,
- regimentation,
- relentlessness,
- restrainedness,
- right,
- rightness,
- rigid discipline,
- rigidity,
- rigor,
- rigorousness,
- roughness,
- ruggedness,
- rustic style,
- ruthlessness,
- savagery,
- seriousness,
- sharp air,
- sharpness,
- shortness,
- simpleness,
- simplicity,
- singleness,
- soberness,
- solemnity,
- sourness,
- spareness,
- sparseness,
- starkness,
- sternness,
- sting,
- storminess,
- straightforwardness,
- strictness,
- stridency,
- stringency,
- subtlety,
- surliness,
- tartness,
- teeth,
- tempestuousness,
- terrorism,
- textualism,
- the letter,
- toughness,
- trenchancy,
- truculence,
- tyranny,
- unadorned style,
- unadornedness,
- unadulteration,
- unaffectedness,
- unelaborateness,
- unfanciness,
- unfussiness,
- ungentleness,
- uniformity,
- unimaginativeness,
- unity,
- unmixedness,
- unpoeticalness,
- unsophistication,
- vandalism,
- vehemence,
- venom,
- vernacular,
- viciousness,
- violence,
- virulence
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