sterner in English

adjective

1

(of a person or their manner) serious and unrelenting, especially in the assertion of authority and exercise of discipline.

a smile transformed his stern face

synonyms: serious, unsmiling, frowning, severe, forbidding, grim, unfriendly, austere, dour, stony, flinty, steely, unrelenting, unforgiving, unbending, unsympathetic, disapproving

adjective

serious, unsmiling, frowning, severe, forbidding, grim, unfriendly, austere, dour, stony, flinty, steely, unrelenting, unforgiving, unbending, unsympathetic, disapproving
strict, severe, stringent, harsh, drastic, hard, tough, extreme, rigid, ruthless, rigorous, exacting, demanding, uncompromising, unsparing, inflexible, authoritarian, draconian
inexorable, grim, unappeasable, relentless, unforgiving, unrelenting
severe, stark, austere
strict, exacting
austere

Use "sterner" in a sentence

1. Police are planning sterner measures to combat crime.

2. The visitors seem to be made of sterner stuff.

3. Apotheosized Form From the Jupiter Quartet by Nicolas Sterner

4. The police are planning sterner measures to combat crime.

5. 2000, Sterner and Elser 2002) is the same as between chemical Autocatalysis and ecological Autocatalysis

6. Synonyms for Austerer include sterner, severer, stricter, harsher, colder, harder, grimmer, flintier, graver and seriouser

7. Science Digest reported: “In all history there had been no sterner, swifter visitation of death.”

8. There is no sterner or more Assiduous newshawk to be found on the demanding beat than yours truly

9. If this strategy fails, however, you then have to resort to sterner measures in the shape of video floodlights.

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11. Marvel could have gone grimmer, Broodier and sterner, but that isn’t its onscreen way; so it has made Thor sunnier, sillier and funnier

12. If an occasion arose where a son became absolutely rebellious and incorrigible after repeated warnings and the necessary discipline, a still sterner measure was taken.

13. But several instances have come to my knowledge, in which Union men of a sterner cast than those described as Acquiescing compromisers were defeated in the election, and, aside from

14. It adds: “In all history there had been no sterner, swifter visitation of death . . . had the epidemic continued its rate of acceleration, humanity would have been eradicated in a matter of months.”

15. See definition of Chafed EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB On these occasions he was sterner than usual with Eudora, who Chafed under the firm rein held upon her, and longed to be free

16. Before any of his Apparitors could execute the sentence, he was himself summoned away by a sterner apparitor to the other world.: Generally, he was informed of suspicious behavior by court officials like the captain and the alarii or Apparitors.

17. Belair Kits is Europe's largest Kit Cutting company and is accredited kit cutters to major scale designers including Nick Ziroli, Wendell Hostetler, Jerry Bates, Don Smith, Kerry Sterner, David Andersen, Jim Pepino, Dave Platt, Palmer Plans, Vailly Aviation, Tarvin Model Products, and Meister Scale.