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- doesn't like the asperity of most experimental music
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- she responded with such asperity that we knew she was deeply offended by the question
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- as a physically challenged person, he has encountered more than his share of asperities on the road to success
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- bar,
- catch,
- check,
- clog,
- crimp,
- embarrassment,
- handicap,
- hindrance,
- hitch,
- hurdle,
- impediment,
- interference,
- let,
- manacle,
- obstacle,
- obstruction,
- pons asinorum,
- rub,
- shackle,
- snag,
- stop,
- trammel
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“Asperity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/asperity. Accessed 27 May. 2022.
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