harshly
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈhɑːʃli/
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Adverb
[edit]harshly (comparative harshlier or more harshly, superlative harshliest or most harshly)
- In a harsh manner; severely.
- 1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto I, stanza 193:
- Yet, if I name my guilt, 't is not to boast, / None can deem harshlier of me than I deem [...].
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XXI, page 35:
- The traveller hears me now and then,
And sometimes harshly will he speak:
‘This fellow would make weakness weak,
And melt the waxen hearts of men.’
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.
- 1968, Paul Ritchie, Confessions of a People Lover: A Novel - Page 51:
- Oh, those cruel and blitheless asses! Did they know my thoughts, my dreams, as I searched the sweet mystery of myself for the hidden meaning of my life? They did not. They judged me harshly for a few paltry actions.
Translations
[edit]in a harsh manner; severely
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