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severe and unremitting in making demands
an exacting instructor; a stern disciplinarian; strict standards
of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect
an austere expression; a stern face
(adj) inexorable, grim, unrelenting, relentless, unappeasable, unforgiving, stern
not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty
grim determination; grim necessity; Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty; relentless persecution; the stern demands of parenthood
(adj) stern, austere, stark, severe
severely simple
a stark interior
(noun) stern, tail, after part, poop, quarter
the rear part of a ship
(noun) keister, seat, rump, rear, rear end, posterior, prat, fanny, fundament, ass, behind, arse, backside, hind end, hindquarters, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, bottom, derriere, tooshie, stern, tail, tail end, tush, nates
the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
he deserves a good kick in the butt; are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?
(noun) Isaac Stern
United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920)