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Severe or strict in manner or attitude

Self-disciplined or ascetic

Having a plain and unadorned appearance

Having a somber or dismal atmosphere or nature

Having a forbidding or cold appearance or nature

Harsh, oppressive, and difficult to bear or endure

Lacking friendliness or emotion in manner or behavior

Showing a brooding ill humor

Merciless, having or showing no pity

Not able to be changed or adapted to particular circumstances

Strictly conventional in one's manner or behavior

Contemptuously ridiculing or mocking someone or something

To a total, utter or complete degree

(of a tax or other charge) Extremely high, harsh or severe

(of a person) Lacking sophistication or refinement

Not excessively bright, flashy or showy

Displaying a minimalist, raw, and hasty quality

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Adjective

Severe or strict in manner or attitude

dyed-in-the-wool

stiff as a board

uncompassionate

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“Davies' book portrays Bill Nicholson as an austere manager who finds it difficult to relate to players while regularly accusing them of lacking the guts of former generations of footballers.”

Adjective

Self-disciplined or ascetic

self-disciplined

self-restrained

self-abnegating

self-sacrificing

self-controlled

self-restraining

schoolmistressy

prim and proper

stick-in-the-mud

of the old school

holier-than-thou

goody-two-shoes

politically correct

goody two-shoes

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“But what tempts these youngsters to leave the security of home and lucrative jobs for an austere lifestyle of development work overseas?”

Adjective

Having a plain and unadorned appearance

unsophisticated

straightforward

without ornamentation

without ornament

rough and ready

pure and simple

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“Harris' influence, however, isn't apparent in the serious, austere, and occasionally beautiful music on this disk.”

Adjective

Having a somber or dismal atmosphere or nature

unfavourable^UK

disadvantageous

without vegetation

down in the dumps

down in the mouth

given to looking on the black side

in the doldrums

demoralising^UK

demoralizing^US

looking on the black side

heart-wrenching

poverty-stricken

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“In neighboring Buddhist Tibet, on the high plateau in an austere environment, live the Brokpa herders.”

Adjective

Having a forbidding or cold appearance or nature

uncommunicative

ill-humoured^UK

desensitised^UK

desensitized^US

take-no-prisoners

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“He comes over as a rather serious, studious and austere man, but there is clearly another side to him.”

Adjective

Harsh, oppressive, and difficult to bear or endure

unfavourable^UK

full of hardship

disadvantageous

pick-and-shovel

poverty-stricken

uncomplimentary

ill-favoured^UK

looking on the black side

life-threatening

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Adjective

Lacking friendliness or emotion in manner or behavior

uncommunicative

undemonstrative

keeping people at arm's length

uncompanionable

putting on airs

self-controlled

cool, calm and collected

depersonalized^US

depersonalised^UK

strictly business

unimpressionable

uncompassionate

could care less

couldn't care less

don't give a damn

along for the ride

desensitized^US

desensitised^UK

couldn't-care-less

devoid of emotion

not giving a monkey's

nondiscriminatory

going with the flow

rolling with the punches

cool as a cucumber

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Adjective

Showing a brooding ill humor

ill-humoured^UK

bound and determined

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Adjective

Merciless, having or showing no pity

desensitised^UK

desensitized^US

take-no-prisoners

lacking compassion

with a heart of stone

killer instinct

uncompassionate

as hard as nails

uncommiserating

without sentiment

having a killer instinct

self-centered^US

self-centred^UK

red in tooth and claw

lacking sentiment

as tough as old boots

toughened by experience

unimpressionable

disregardful of

dishonourable^UK

dishonorable^US

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Adjective

Not able to be changed or adapted to particular circumstances

incontrovertible

tough nut to crack

closely controlled

strictly controlled

rigidly enforced

fixed as the laws of the Medes and the Persians

well-established

fixed as the laws of the Medes and Persians

dyed-in-the-wool

solid as a rock

not subject to change

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Adjective

Strictly conventional in one's manner or behavior

stick-in-the-mud

of the old school

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Adjective

Contemptuously ridiculing or mocking someone or something

strong-smelling

uncomplimentary

tongue-in-cheek

extremely critical

evil-intentioned

passive-aggressive

full of contempt

pass-remarkable

ill-humoured^UK

rubbing the wrong way

dripping with malice

with tongue in cheek

quietly humorous

dishonorable^US

unsportsmanlike

dishonourable^UK

unfavourable^UK

dishonouring^UK

like a bear with a sore head

over-censorious

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Adjective

To a total, utter or complete degree

dyed-in-the-wool

through and through

in every respect

no holds barred

without reservations

no ifs ands or buts

through-and-through

without reservation

nothing other than

without qualification

one-hundred percent

no strings attached

rightly so called

without reserve

with no strings

without restrictions

no-holds-barred

untrammelled^UK

hundred percent

lock stock and barrel

incontrovertible

straightforward

all-encompassing

honest-to-goodness

stick out like sore thumb

plenipotentiary

to the exclusion of everything else

free from doubt

greatest amount of

greatest possible

unchallengeable

encyclopedic^US

brutally honest

pulling no punches

encyclopaedic^UK

beyond question

as sure as eggs is eggs

minding p's and q's

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Adjective

(of a tax or other charge) Extremely high, harsh or severe

overextravagant

out of proportion

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Adjective

(of a person) Lacking sophistication or refinement

rough and ready

rough-and-ready

rough-and-tumble

unsophisticated

low-down-and-dirty

near the knuckle

lowdown and dirty

ill-humoured^UK

dishonorable^US

dishonourable^UK

close to the bone

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Adjective

Not excessively bright, flashy or showy

dark-coloured^UK

dark-colored^US

light-colored^US

light-coloured^UK

peaches-and-cream

keeping one's light under a bushel

free from vanity

self-deprecating

delicately complex

hardly noticeable

hardly detectable

in the background

keeping a low profile

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Adjective

Displaying a minimalist, raw, and hasty quality

rough-and-ready

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