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also stoney
as in stern
having or showing a lack of sympathy or tender feelings
the judge's stony demeanor didn't raise the defendant's hopes for a more lenient sentence
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Recent Examples of stony
This wine oozes satiny delicacy with notes of ripe apple, citrus peel and beeswax but the vine age and soils lend the fruit a stony, serious complexity.
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Katie Kelly Bell, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
These are stony, foreboding images that are nowhere near as sensuous as her previous abstractions.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 12 Sep. 2024
Exploring how my heart has gotten stony with regard to particular people.
—April Austin, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Oct. 2024
That means the flavor can range from mild and clean to stony or salty, and the intensity of the bubbles also varies from delicate to aggressive.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Sep. 2024
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Katie Kelly Bell, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
These are stony, foreboding images that are nowhere near as sensuous as her previous abstractions.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 12 Sep. 2024
Exploring how my heart has gotten stony with regard to particular people.
—April Austin, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Oct. 2024
That means the flavor can range from mild and clean to stony or salty, and the intensity of the bubbles also varies from delicate to aggressive.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stony
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Unable to find the individual, Bryan delivered a stern warning instead.Angel Saunders, People.com, 26 Nov. 2024
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Montgomery based the story of Anne in part on her own upbringing, after her mother died and her father left her with her stern grandparents in Cavendish on the north shore of the island.Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Nov. 2024
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Nevertheless, many in Ukraine have displayed a determined — if perhaps grim — realpolitik at the man holding the purse strings of their military rearguard action.Alexander Smith, NBC News, 6 Nov. 2024
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Despite the grim visuals, hope seems always to be on Weems’s mind.Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 4 Nov. 2024
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Her wife and now-teenage daughter stood by her throughout the process, despite ruthless coverage from Mexican and Spanish news outlets, some of which continue to misgender and deadname her to this day.Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024
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The ruthless military officer with the monocle and the swagger stick who sends his men to senseless death and/or turns traitor.Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
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Trump has promised to enact a new fiscal and economic regime, including harsh tariffs that some economists fear could have inflationary effects.Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
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For your glass cooktop, avoid harsh chemicals and abrasive sponges.Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 5 Nov. 2024
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Up the long hill and around a bend that almost touches itself White Chimneys comes into view, as harsh and obdurate as ever.Annie Proulx, The New Yorker, 30 June 2024
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Over the next several hundred million years, terrestrial plants of all kinds profoundly altered the planet, accelerating the water cycle, turning obdurate crust into supple soil—and pushing the level of atmospheric oxygen to new heights.Ferris Jabr, The Atlantic, 25 June 2024
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This fall, a 16-foot-tall pigeon — its chest puffed out proudly, head high, not down pecking at some errant pizza crust, its pitiless red-eye gaze looking out over the traffic — will alight on the spur of the High Line that bridges Tenth Avenue at 30th Street.Carl Swanson, Curbed, 31 July 2024
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Drugged, kidnapped, and manacled while a pitiless killer wears her face.Keith Phipps, Vulture, 11 July 2024
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Tragedies like these were confrontations — merciless verbal duels in which two characters plead their case, go on the attack, try to take each other apart.Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2024
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And as long as that’s their take, merciless heckling of those umps should be, too.Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2024
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Bosa confirmed Wednesday that playing through a hip injury last game was the toughest pain he’s endured in 5 1/2 seasons.Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
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The Buffs need to find a way to grind out tough yards on the ground, especially late.Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 15 Nov. 2024
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“Stony.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stony. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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