harsh

harshness | American Dictionary

harshness
noun[ U ]
us/ˈhɑrʃ·nəs/
the quality of being cruel or unkind:
the harshness of the punishment
the quality of being severe or unpleasant:
We weren’t aware of the harshness of our condition.

Examples of harshness

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When convicted, there was only so much they could do to prevent a sentence of exemplary harshness and a bitter gaol experience.
Accounts of the phenomenon consistently emphasize three elements in its conduct: haste, harshness and extreme insensitivity to local social and ecological concerns.
In the last century, effective compromises were elaborated to mitigate the harshness of the market in which work is bought and sold.
Even though the stagflation crisis hit all developed nations with almost equal harshness, privatization strategies were anything but pervasive.
Among the dimensions of parenting found to be relevant for child mental health have been warmth, control, effectiveness, consistency, neglect, and harshness of discipline.
There was no significant interaction between race and harshness in any of our regressions.
In this situation, an increase in # for m fitness and fitness-related traits should be observed with enhanced environmental harshness.
However, the mutational variance of fitness-component traits due to non-severe detrimental mutations did not increase with environmental harshness.
For rich prisoners the harshness of prison life could be mitigated.
The amount of suffering was conceptualized as a combination of the length of the prison term and the harshness of the prison regime.
It could also be attractive for groups who felt too exposed to the harshness of the market.
But what often renders specific per formance excessive is not some intrinsic, self-explanator y harshness.
Harshness and violence seemed to be the norm in their family and personal relationships and ultimately on the streets.
Some were escaping law or the harshness of life and livelihood in their places of origin, and these were more prone to shirking and complaining about the routine.
Unless niche-independent genetic differences in strategy choice are invoked, the viability of the theory depends upon a near zero correlation between environmental harshness and pathogen prevalence.
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