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  • 41ugliness — Synonyms and related words: bearishness, bitchiness, cacophony, cantankerousness, churlishness, coarseness, crabbedness, cracked voice, crankiness, crossness, crustiness, cussedness, disagreeability, disagreeableness, discord, displeasingness,… …

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  • 42crabbed — adjective 1》 (of writing) hard to read or understand. 2》 crabby. Derivatives crabbedly adverb crabbedness noun Origin ME: from crab1, because of the crab s sideways gait and habit of snapping …

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  • 43acerbity — n. 1. Sourness, astringency, roughness, acidity, acidness, tartness, acridity, acridness, bitterness. 2. Acrimony, acrimoniousness, severity, harshness, sternness, asperity, bitterness, venom, rancor, crabbedness, churlishness, moroseness,… …

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  • 44acrimony — n. 1. Sharpness, corrosiveness, causticity. 2. Severity, harshness, hardness, sourness, tartness, acridity, acridness, asperity, virulence, bitterness, acerbity, rancor, venom, crabbedness, moroseness, churlishness, ill temper, spite,… …

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  • 45asperity — n. 1. Roughness, ruggedness, unevenness. 2. Acrimony, tartness, sourness, sharpness, causticity, corrosiveness. 3. Harshness, moroseness, sternness, severity, virulence, crabbedness, bitterness, churlishness, acerbity, sullenness, ill temper See… …

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  • 46churlishness — n. 1. Rudeness, incivility, roughness, brutishness. 2. Crabbedness, moroseness, sullenness, tartness, acrimony, acerbity, asperity, harshness, bitterness, ill temper. 3. Niggardliness, stinginess, penuriousness, closeness, meanness, miserliness,… …

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  • 47harshness — n. 1. Roughness. 2. Austerity, rigor, severity, sternness, crabbedness, moroseness, churlishness, ill temper, asperity, ill nature, hardness, unkindness, acerbity. 3. Rudeness, incivility, bluntness, bluffness, ungraciousness, churlishness,… …

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  • 48ill-temper — n. Moroseness, sullenness, sulkiness, crabbedness, crossness, perverseness, bad temper. See ill nature …

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  • 49moroseness — n. Crabbedness, sullenness, moodiness, churlishness, sourness, sulkiness, sulks, spleen, ill temper …

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  • 50sourness — n. 1. Acidity, tartness, sharpness. 2. Acrimony, asperity, moroseness, harshness, crabbedness, churlishness, peevishness, discontent, crossness …

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