Synonym: grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, sharpness. Similar words: posterity, aspect, exasperate, exasperation, inherit, heritage, criteria, minority. Meaning: [æ'sperətɪ] 
n. 1. something hard to endure 2. harshness of manner.
n. 1. something hard to endure 2. harshness of manner. 
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1 There was a touch of asperity in his tone.
2 He spoke to the boy with asperity.
3 She pointed out, with some asperity, that it had all been my fault.
4 He, too, noted with mild asperity the harsh encroachment of industrialization on the ethereal world of the cataract.
5 And he had a notorious asperity for which he was afterwards sometimes penitent.
6 Thicker films assure fewer asperity contacts and less wear.
7 Mrs Tremaine, wrought up,(www.Sentencedict.com) could resist an unusual asperity.
8 Employing the average flow model and asperity contact model, a theoretical analysis for piston rings lubrication condition has been presented.
9 "I told you Preskel had no idea," remarked Kemp with some asperity.
10 His words were not heard but the hissing of the voice carried a certain asperity.
11 With any other man Dalgliesh would have pointed this out and with some asperity.
12 But here he was set right by Mrs. Bennet, who assured him with some asperity that they were very well able to keep a good cook, and that her daughters had nothing to do in the kitchen.
13 The hydrodynamic governing equation was derived based on the average flow model of Patir-Cheng and the contact factor of Weibull asperity height distribution.
14 The Shear Dilatant Effect of Joints Refers to the Increase of Joints' Volume and Thickness Accompanying Shear Displacement as Caused by the Asperity of the Joint Surface.
15 In this paper, the far-field body wave radiation of the fault which contains a asperity is studied by using dislocation model.
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