Meanings (ES + gloss)
aspereza • asperidad
The quality of being harsh or severe in the way one behaves or speaks toward another person; (countable, chiefly in the plural) a deeply hostile or resentful feeling; an animosity, a hatred.
But here he was set right by Mrs. Bennet, who assured him with some asperity that they were very well able to keep a good cook, and that her daughters had nothing to do in the kitc…
Mr. Nickleby looked very indignant at the handmaid on being thus corrected, and demanded with much asperity what she meant; […]
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