austere


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Synonyms for austere

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Synonyms for austere

cold and forbidding

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Synonyms for austere

severely simple

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of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor

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practicing great self-denial

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The Daily Leadership carried a feature story on Sunday in its "Unreported" section on five world leaders entitled "World's Most Austere Presidents," Sheikh Hasina, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, is said to have a monthly salary of $800 (about N288000), said the daily mentioning that Sheikh Hasina was ranked at 59 in Forbes' list of the "World's 100 Most Powerful Women".
Cloth, $90.00--In this clearly written and well-researched book, Zoller challenges "austere dualism," which she regards as a major misinterpretation of Plato's philosophy.
With this in mind, they present for the eleventh year a group exhibition that has now become an institution, Lush Art in Austere Times that opens on February 27.
(TAP) - The Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights (FTDES) calls for avoiding the "austere measures" planned by the government in the 2018 Finance Law, considering that these measures will have negative repercussions on the citizens' economic and social rights.
I do have a problem with providing everywhere with a Christmas tree and lights in these austere times.
A POLICE tsar is to consider taking on private sponsorship for his force in a bid to survive "austere times with a shrinking budget and workforce".
Buildings are compact, timber framed and utterly austere in form and furnishings, symbolising the importance of a modest life to Buddhist teachings.
Brigadier Ed Butler admitted the conditions under which troops had been fighting were "austere" but said morale remained high.
Austere style in twentieth-century literature; literary minimalism.
Lauren Grant, by far the smallest member of the company, but only in height, lit up the austere Bijoux--a strange little girl in a pink satin dress--and the even more austere Rondo, originally a solo for Morris.
Because of its austere anatomy, researchers long assumed that the developing heart uses a mechanism called peristalsis, in which a series of muscle contractions move material from one end of a tube to the other.
Pumhosl's footnotes to modernism seem austere, almost monastic.