Hard and Sheer

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Hard adjective - Having or showing a lack of sympathy or tender feelings.

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Sheer and hard are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sheer" instead an adjective "Hard".

Nearby Words: harden, hardship, hardy, hardly, hardness

Sheer adjective - Very thin and easy to see through.

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Hard and sheer are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hard" instead an adjective "Sheer".

Nearby Words: sheered, sheering

Usually this would make a villain hard to take seriously, but with the Daleks it instead underscores the sheer, unadulterated hatred they have for everyone else, making them more unnerving.

Source: Narm Charm / Live-Action TV
He was so hard that his difficulty had to be toned down multiple times through patches, because the developers found the sheer number of deaths on the last boss unacceptably high.

Source: Easy Levels, Hard Bosses
It's hard not draw comparisons between Secret of Cerulean Sand and The Secret of Blue Water, due to the sheer number of similarities, including the titles of both series.

Source: Steam Punk

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