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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Her “Congestion Pricing” starts pensively and austerely but layers rhythms over Mr. Hurst’s solid bass foundation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Yet the director Jamie Lloyd found an equally jaw-dropping exit for Jessica Chastain’s Nora in his austerely chic Broadway revival of “A Doll’s House.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2023
The gallery’s main space, in a strip mall near the corner of Highland and Melrose avenues, features a selection of his larger works, ranging in tone from the austerely spiritual to the whimsically eclectic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2023
This austerely designed but thematically florid psychological thriller aspires to a cosmic grandeur that at times directly invokes the myth of Prometheus, a mortal who stole fire from the gods.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2019
“It might be,” Pantalaimon said austerely, in his tiny moth voice.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
