Harsh and Smart

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Harsh adjective - Difficult to endure.

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Smart and harsh are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Smart" instead an adjective "Harsh".

Nearby Words: harshness, harshly

Smart adjective - Being strikingly neat and trim in style or appearance.

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Harsh and smart are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Harsh" instead an adjective "Smart".

Nearby Words: smarten, smartness, smartly

Any character who loses their head in a fight and stops fighting smart promptly gets their dislocated ass handed to them and learns a harsh lesson: will does not beat skill.

Source: Deconstructor Fleet
She's not the usual perky hippie new age type, though, but she's definitely Wild in the corporate drag of a smart business suit and pony tail, and acts fairly abrupt and harsh, as she delights in acting wild and crazy and keeping Ryan Reynolds on his toes and basically doing as she pleases.

Source: Uptight Loves Wild
Kiwako (beautiful) and Chieko (smart), complete with very harsh rivalry.

Source: The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry

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