Thesaurus / austere
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
The sedateness of his deportment and the apparent regularity of his life delighted austere moralists.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES II.THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
Madame Torvestad, with an austere and imperious aspect, sat in her place; many gazed at her, but she maintained her composure.
SKIPPER WORSEALEXANDER LANGE KIELLAND
Hence those great devotions, those austere retreats from the world, of which some of them have given an example.
CAMILLE (LA DAME AUX CAMILIAS)ALEXANDRE DUMAS, FILS
These are the followers of Levana, the austere goddess who takes up the new-born babe and perfects it by sorrow.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, HIS LIFETHOPHILE GAUTIER
This type became more and more rigid and austere as the gathering shadows of the Dark Ages mantled on the minds of men.
THE CATACOMBS OF ROMEWILLIAM HENRY WITHROW
He remained an austere republican, refusing to take part in the Napoleonic rgime.
With the light falling directly upon it, the pure countenance looked grave and austere.
URANIACAMILLE FLAMMARION
His great rival in satire was Horace, who laughed at follies; but Juvenal, more austere, exaggerated and denounced them.
BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME IJOHN LORD
To master with more certainty her understanding, they would render her austere, intolerant, and vindictive.
LETTERS TO EUGENIAPAUL HENRI THIRY HOLBACH
He was young, and he felt nervous as he looked from the pulpit on the austere critic in his great square pew just beneath.
EAST ANGLIAJ. EWING RITCHIE
WORDS RELATED TO AUSTERE
- austere
- barbarous
- bleak
- cantankerous
- churlish
- crabbed
- cruel
- crusty
- dogged
- ferocious
- fierce
- forbidding
- foreboding
- formidable
- frightful
- funereal
- ghastly
- gloomy
- glowering
- glum
- grisly
- grouchy
- gruesome
- grumpy
- harsh
- hideous
- horrid
- implacable
- inexorable
- intractable
- merciless
- morose
- ominous
- relentless
- resolute
- ruthless
- scowling
- severe
- shocking
- sinister
- somber
- sour
- splenetic
- stern
- stubborn
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- terrible
- truculent
- unrelenting
- unyielding
- austere
- barbarous
- bleak
- cantankerous
- churlish
- crabbed
- cruel
- crusty
- dogged
- ferocious
- fierce
- forbidding
- foreboding
- formidable
- frightful
- funereal
- ghastly
- gloomy
- glowering
- glum
- grisly
- grouchy
- gruesome
- grumpy
- harsh
- hideous
- horrid
- implacable
- inexorable
- intractable
- merciless
- morose
- ominous
- relentless
- resolute
- ruthless
- scowling
- severe
- shocking
- sinister
- somber
- sour
- splenetic
- stern
- stubborn
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- terrible
- truculent
- unrelenting
- unyielding
- acrimonious
- angry
- antagonistic
- austere
- bitter
- bleak
- brutal
- callous
- cold
- cold fish
- cold-blooded
- dark
- disagreeable
- distressing
- dour
- exacting
- grievous
- grim
- hard as nails
- hard-boiled
- harsh
- hostile
- inclement
- intemperate
- intolerable
- obdurate
- painful
- perverse
- pitiless
- rancorous
- resentful
- rigorous
- rugged
- severe
- stern
- strict
- stringent
- stubborn
- thick-skinned
- tough
- unfeeling
- unjust
- unkind
- unpleasant
- unrelenting
- unsparing
- unsympathetic
- vengeful
- acrimonious
- angry
- antagonistic
- austere
- bitter
- bleak
- brutal
- callous
- cold
- cold fish
- cold-blooded
- dark
- disagreeable
- distressing
- dour
- exacting
- grievous
- grim
- hard as nails
- hard-boiled
- harsh
- hostile
- inclement
- intemperate
- intolerable
- obdurate
- painful
- perverse
- pitiless
- rancorous
- resentful
- rigorous
- rugged
- severe
- stern
- strict
- stringent
- stubborn
- thick-skinned
- tough
- unfeeling
- unjust
- unkind
- unpleasant
- unrelenting
- unsparing
- unsympathetic
- vengeful
- acrimonious
- angry
- antagonistic
- austere
- bitter
- bleak
- brutal
- callous
- cold
- cold fish
- cold-blooded
- dark
- disagreeable
- distressing
- dour
- exacting
- grievous
- grim
- hard as nails
- hard-boiled
- harsh
- hostile
- inclement
- intemperate
- intolerable
- obdurate
- painful
- perverse
- pitiless
- rancorous
- resentful
- rigorous
- rugged
- severe
- stern
- strict
- stringent
- stubborn
- thick-skinned
- tough
- unfeeling
- unjust
- unkind
- unpleasant
- unrelenting
- unsparing
- unsympathetic
- vengeful
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