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harshly

/hahrsh/US // hɑrʃ //UK // (hɑːʃ) //

严厉地,严厉的,严厉谴责,严厉

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect: harsh treatment; harsh manners.
    • : grim or unpleasantly severe; stern; cruel; austere: a harsh life; a harsh master.
    • : physically uncomfortable; desolate; stark: a harsh land.
    • : unpleasant to the ear; grating; strident: a harsh voice; a harsh sound.
    • : unpleasantly rough, ragged, or coarse to the touch: a harsh surface.
    • : jarring to the eye or to the esthetic sense; unrefined; crude; raw: harsh colors.
    • : unpleasant to the taste or sense of smell; bitter; acrid: a harsh flavor; a harsh odor.

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Examples

  • When you’re the first of a community to do something, especially something that’s off the beaten path, people will come for you in the harshest way.

  • Akita’s winters are so harsh that he had to live in a boarding house to be able to get to high school.

  • Judged by the harsh biblical standards Immanuel School applies to LGBT people, Mike and Karen Pence deserve the same sentence.

  • After their harsh three-year sojourn, the thinnest layers of bacteria were fried by ultraviolet radiation.

  • I mean, if you’re going to get paid a quarter of a million by some company after you leave office just to show up and schmooze and give a speech, then human nature is like, “Maybe I shouldn’t be too harsh on this company.”

  • Kids are safer when those who risk their safety are quickly, harshly, publicly and clearly punished.

  • There is a pro-cable bias that seems to forgive so-so shows and so-so series and judges network series harshly.

  • The heavyset wife wears a black abaya, has facial tattoos and croaks harshly when she speaks.

  • He changed how the people of his time engaged God, editing a theology that was often portrayed harshly and dogmatically.

  • I held it in my arms until the alarm in the safe rang harshly, and then tenderly, proudly, I replaced it and shut the steel doors.

  • Not a word now,” cried Longcluse harshly, extending his hand quickly towards him; “I may do that which can't be undone.

  • Yet if there is a measure of untruth in such pretty flatteries, one needs to be superhuman in order to condemn them harshly.

  • "Slap your saddles on them fresh hosses," he grated harshly from the back of a deep-chested, lean-flanked gray.

  • A knell from the church bell broke harshly on these youthful thoughts.

  • "You are quite well aware that you could never look otherwise than maddeningly beautiful," he said harshly.