austere
adjective
severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding.
austerely
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a word derived from
austere.
Example Sentences
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If anything, he boldly foreshadows the darkness just on the horizon, shooting his drama austerely, the weight of inevitable doom hanging over everything.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2024
Y’s movie is being shown at a public library in a village in the Arava, a sparsely populated, austerely beautiful desert region in southern Israel.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2022
First published in 1971, this austerely handsome volume assembles a dozen literary fairy tales, that is, stories written in imitation of the oral folk narratives transcribed by the Brothers Grimm and other scholars.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2021
In a small market town in East Jutland, Per Sidenius is one of eleven children growing up in an austerely religious family.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 14, 2019
The woman had a long, brooding oval face of burnt umber, with coarse graying black hair parted severely in the middle and combed back austerely behind her neck without curl, wave or ornamentation.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
