Both Uses of
asperity
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- In the question of the grazing lands his peevish asperity is notorious and in Mr Cuffe's hearing brought upon him from an indignant rancher a scathing retort couched in terms as straightforward as they were bucolic.†
Chpt 14 *
- Needless to say the fumes of his recent orgy spoke then with some asperity in a curious bitter way foreign to his sober state.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(asperity) harshness of manner