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astringent abrasive pyrotic painful oppressive operose onerous morose mordant mordacious merciless major laborious knotty knotted keen parlous paroxysmal penal puritanical puritan punitive punishing prudish profound priggish precarious ponderous poignant pitiless piercing peracute iron-fisted intimidatory intensive heartless harrowing hard-shell harder grinding grim graver gnawing glowering frowning franciscan forcible forbidding heartrending hefty