showing firmness and severity
showing displeasure or disapproval
"he deserves a good kick in the butt"
"are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"
"an austere expression"
"a stern face"
"grim determination"
"grim necessity"
"Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty"
"relentless persecution"
"the stern demands of parenthood"
"an exacting instructor"
"a stern disciplinarian"
"strict standards"
"a stark interior"
Gulls billowed and creaked around the stern of the..vessel.
出自: D. Profumo
A stern judge who had sentenced numerous persons to death.
出自: J. A. Michener