unsofteningadj.
(un- prefix1 4.)
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > harshness or severity > [adjective] > rigidly or relentlessly
grima1000
steely1508
unbowable1537
inexorable1553
unrelenting1590
unrelentless1606
rigid1610
implacable1611
unrelentable1611
unsoftened1645
unconniving1671
ramrod1850
unexcusing1853
unsoftening1857
tough1905
1857 C. Dickens Little Dorrit ii. xxx. 588 She..with an unsoftening face, looked at the worked letters within.
1873 W. Pater Stud. Hist. Renaissance 74 This last passion would be the most unsoftening..of all.
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adj.1857- to laugh to hething
- to laugh to hoker
- to laugh to scorn
- to laugh until one cries
- to laugh up one's sleeve
- to launch into eternity
- to launch it out
- to lave
- to lave a
- to lavish it
- to law it
- to lawyer up
- to lay a buck
- to lay a dāk
- to lay a finger on
- to lay a finger on a person
- to lay a finger on a thing
- to lay a finger upon
- to lay a finger upon a person
- to lay a finger upon a thing
- to lay a fire
- to lay a ghost
- to lay a ghost to rest
- to lay a ground
- to lay a guilt trip on