brutal, cruel, unforgiving, unkind, tough, bitter, rough, lenient, unpleasant, severe, draconian, nasty, bleak, merciless, strident, stinging, scathing, savage, bad, blunt, extreme, withering, caustic, dire, inhospitable, hellish, milder, terrible, dreadful, sterner, unfriendly, horrendous, stiff, vicious, grim, spiteful, kinder, stark, punitive, stormy, cold, gloomy, painful, austere, unflattering, chilly, uncongenial, atrocious, toughened, miserable, undiplomatic, oppressive, dismissive, temperate, chilling, fierce, horrible, appalling, horrid, vitriolic, favorable, forceful, stringent, difficult, unfair, intemperate, inhumane, restrictive, brusk, bluntest, scornful, belligerant, unsympathetic, unfavorable, hurtful, pitiless, callous, strict, vehement, unmerciful, damning, abrasive, condemnatory, heavy, chastening, humiliating, repressive, dreary, onerous, unsavory, torturous, gentler, ugly, unwelcoming, unsporting, brusque, uncomplimentary, sobering, heartless, forgiving, poor, unaccommodating, absenteeism, addiction, adhesions, adhesive, affec, affection, affections, alcoholism, alveolar, anger, anxiety, bereavement, beryllium, cannula, catheter, chd, corneal, crt, dependency, deprivations, harsher, harshest, stern, mildest, deprecatory, menacing, unkindly, censorious, inhuman, kindlier, noncommittal

., acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, animadversion, belabor, belabour, bitter, bitterness, blare, blaring, blister, blistering, cacophony, cactus wren, caustic, censure, clamor, comfort woman, concentration camp, critic, croak, croaking, croup, cutting, dim, din, discipline, discord, discordance, dissonate, draconian, easy, edged, euphonious, gentle, grate, grating, gratingly, gravel, gravelly, griffon, grinding, gruff, harshen, harshly, harshness, heavy metal, hoarse, husky, inquisitor, interrogator, in time, jarring, language, lessened, masterless, mince, mitigate, moderate, modify, quack, rasping, raspingly, raspy, raucous, raw, roaster, rough, roughness, scald, scrape, scraping, scratch, scratching, screak, screamer, screech, sharp, sharp-worded, skreak, skreigh, slavery, snoring, soft-spoken, soften, sounding, spasmodic laryngitis, squawk, stinging, stockade, strident, subdued, sulfurous, sulphurous, tart, uncharitable, unforgiving, unjustifiably, venomous, virulent, vitriolic, whip, wire-haired pointing griffon

abrasive, brutal, cruel, disagreeable, hard, heavy, rigorous, rough, unkind, unpleasant