ASPERITY in a Sentence

Learn ASPERITY from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For ASPERITY, below is one of 5 sentences:
Three years had certainly not smoothed the asperities of his temper or his impatience with a less active intelligence than his own.

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 Meanings and Examples of ASPERITY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
asperity
 n.  sharpness of temper; roughness or harshness, as of surface, sound, or climate
Classic Sentence:
1  It is worthy of remark, as a curious physical instance of the efficacy of a sudden surprise in counteracting the effects of extreme fear, that her voice had quite recovered all its official asperity.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
2  , the Bishop levied them on the wealthy with all the more asperity, since he bestowed them on the needy.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME
3  Three years had certainly not smoothed the asperities of his temper or his impatience with a less active intelligence than his own.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
Example Sentence:
1  These remarks, spoken with asperity, stung the boys to whom they had been directed.
2  Looking as frail as eggshells, she deflected questions with a hint of asperity, as any woman of her upbringing might have done.