Hard and Spare

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

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

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

Spare adjective - Being over what is needed.

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Hard and spare are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hard" instead an adjective "Spare".

Nearby Words: spar, sparing, spared, sparely

The Chains of Commanding: Giannine finds this out the hard way as Janine, trying to spare a peasant boy who was caught stealing and trespassing and her choices affect the game run.

Source: Literature / Heir Apparent
Tiana's dad fits this trope because he worked just as hard as Tiana but never got the mill himself, though Tiana has more money to spare because she doesn't have a family to support.

Source: Disney / The Princess and the Frog
Was only used by the Royal Australian Air Force (who affectionately called it "the pig"), but has been retired as of 2010 due to being too expensive and spare parts being hard to find.

Source: Real Life / Cool Plane

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