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What does asperity mean?

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Noun
  1. Roughness as of stone or weather.
  2. Harshness, as of temper.
  3. Something that is harsh and difficult to endure.
  4. (geology) A part of a geological fault line that does not move.
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I tried to express my grief and sympathy, but he cut me short with some asperity.
Certainly, Jeremy had retorted with asperity, I dared to use it in the ground instead of in some pudding!
He also points out with asperity that Fry abandoned a play to near-certain death, allowing his friend Rik Mayall to sink with it.
There was a muttered exclamation indicative of exasperation and the rejoinder with some asperity.
Samples, tapes, synths, drum programmes and all-sorts have been embedded into the sound to create a dynamic asperity.
Writing in French purified his style, and his translations into English of his work retain a penitential rigour and asperity.

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