Harshly

Definitions: Harshly

Harshly

Adverb

1. In a harsh or unkind manner; "`That's enough!,' he cut in harshly".

2. In a harsh and grating manner; "her voice fell gratingly on our ears".

Date "harshly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Harshly

Synonyms: gratingly (adv), raspingly (adv). (additional references)

Crosswords: Harshly

English words defined with "harshly": animadvert ♦ black, bray ♦ censorious, chiding, clashing, come down ♦ dour ♦ flame, forbidding ♦ Gride, grim ♦ Halsening ♦ mordant ♦ objurgation ♦ ramrod, ride roughshod, run roughshod ♦ sandbag, savage, scathing, scolding ♦ To be down on, To have hard measure ♦ vituperative. (references)

Specialty definitions using "harshly": Adjective or Adverb ♦ Itch ♦ Toad. (references)

Etymologies containing "harshly": Halsening. (references)

Author	Quotation
Tori Amos	When you've got the virgin and the whore sitting next to each other, they're likely to judge each other harshly.
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	These virgins were more harshly bent down than the convicts.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	The young man laughed harshly.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		In addition, the European Commission may harshly fine infringing companies. (references)
		Defendants who fail to show the correct attitude by confessing their crimes are typically sentenced more harshly. (references)
Children	Bahrain	Violators are dealt with harshly and may be imprisoned, or, if a noncitizen, deported. (references)
Civil Liberties	Panama	Nevertheless, some legal experts challenged this interpretation, and the media harshly criticized the measure. (references)
	Ghana	Some privately owned newspapers were harshly critical of the Government's policies and of President Kufuor and his ministers and advisors. (references)
Economic History	Slovakia	Because the center of the reform movement had been in Prague, normalization was less harshly felt in Slovakia. (references)
	Taiwan	This decree provided the basis for nearly four decades of martial law under which individuals and groups expressing dissenting views were dealt with harshly. (references)
	South Korea	Special forces units in the city of Kwangju dealt particularly harshly with demonstrators and residents, setting off a chain of events that left at least 200 civilians dead. (references)
Human Rights	Laos	Credible reports indicate that ethnic minority prisoners and some foreign prisoners are treated particularly harshly. (references)
	Malaysia	An opposition activist detained in April under the ISA also reported being harshly treated by police while in detention. (references)
	Russia	There are elaborate inmate-enforced caste systems in which informers, homosexuals, rapists, prison rape victims, child molesters, and others are considered to be "untouchable" and are treated very harshly, with little or no protection provided by the prison authorities. (references)
Indigenous People	Namibia	Government leaders have criticized harshly those opposed to the project, terming them "enemies of development." The law defines the role, duties, and powers of traditional leaders and provides that customary law is invalid if it is inconsistent with provisions of the Constitution. (references)
Minorities	China	Authorities have cracked down harshly on suspected Uighur nationalists and independent Muslim religious leaders. (references)
Political Economy	Malaysia	The Government continued to criticize harshly human rights NGO's, but also met with several such groups during the year. (references)
Worker Rights	China	Prisoners also were treated harshly in other prisons. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Dwight Eisenhower	1953-1961	Thus across all the globe there harshly blow the winds of change.
Gerald Ford	1974-1977	Great attention has been paid to the considerations of fairness, and I can assure you that the burdens will not fall more harshly on those less able to bear them.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Harshly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Harshly" is used about 375 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adverb (general)	100%	375	14,556

Expressions using "harshly": speak harshly ♦ treat harshly. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "harshly": harshly-clipped, harshly-suppressed.
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Language		Translations for "harshly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		vrazhdë (abruptly, coarsely, roughly), ashpër (astringent, hard, roughly, severely, sharply, sternly, violently). (various references)

Arabic		‏بصرامة (forthright, robustly, severely, strictly), ‏بخشونة (off hand, roughly, shortly), ‏بشكل جاف. (various references)

Chinese		苛刻地. (various references)

Czech		tvrdì (hardly, sorely), přísnì (hard, sternly, strictly), drsnì (roughly). (various references)

French		sévèrement, rudement (hardly), durement (hardly). (various references)

German		rauhe (inclemently, raucously, rawly), herb (abrasive, acerbic, acetous, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, aspero, austere, bitter, cruel, dour, dry, harsh, lurid, rough, rude, severe, sharp, sour, tangy, tart, tartly). (various references)

Greek		σκληρά (brutally, cruelly, hard), άγρια (ferociously, furiously, savagely, wildly). (various references)

Hungarian		durván (beastly, boorishly, churlishly, crassly, grossly, impiously, outrageously, rough, roughly). (various references)

Italian		duramente (hard, hardly, heavily, roughly, rudely, sternly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		散散 (severely, terrible, utterly), 散々 (severely, terrible, utterly). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		さ�"ざ�" (severely, terrible, utterly). (various references)

Korean		가혹하게 (severely). (various references)

Pig Latin		arshlyhay

Portuguese		severamente (close, griffin, hardly, pointedly, roundly, severely, sorely, strictly), rudemente (rough, roughly), palavras grosseiras (rough words), cruelmente (bitterly, cruelly, severely), bruscamente (abruptly, bluffly, offhandedly, roughly, sharply, short, shortly, slap bang, suddenly). (various references)

Romanian		sec (bald, barren, cold, dried up, drily, dry, dull, empty, glacial, hollow, literal, stupid, useless), cu asprime (hard, hardily, oppressively, with a heavy hand), aprig (cruel, ferocious, fierce, fiery, grim, hard-hearted, high-spirited, impetuous, passionate, passionately, severe, sharp, truculent, violent). (various references)

Russian		резко (abruptly, acridly, acutely, drastically, hardly, roundly, shortly, stridently). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		promuklo, ljutito (angrily, annoyingly, bitterly, crossly, huff), grubo (bungle, hardly, rough, rough: in the rough, roughly). (various references)

Spanish		severamente (severely, sharply, sternly), duramente (hardily, hardly, sternly, unkindly), ásperamente (acidly, roughly). (various references)

Swedish		hårt (hard, heavily, inclement, rough, roughly), fult (disagreeably, in an unsightly way, nastily). (various references)

Ukranian		різко (abruptly, acutely, hardly, roundly, sharply, short, shrewdly), жорстоко (cruelly, felly, ferociously, mercilessly, oppressively, outrageously, sorely), брутально. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	aspere, atrociter, crudele, severiter, triste. (various references)
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Misspellings
	"Harshly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Harselly, harsely, Harsley, hasrul, shashlik. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "harshly" (pronounced hÄ"rshlē)
3	-sh l ē	bearishly, bullishly, devilishly, especially, feverishly, foolishly, freshly, girlishly, lavishly, lushly, sheepishly, slavishly, sluggishly, stylishly.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-h-h-l-r-s-y"
	-1 letter: rashly.
	-2 letters: aryls, harls, harsh, hylas, shaly.
	-3 letters: aryl, ashy, hahs, harl, hash, hays, hyla, lars, lash, lays, rash, rays, ryas, shah, shay, slay.
	-4 letters: als, ars, ash, ays, hah, has, hay, lar, las, lay, rah, ras, ray, rya, sal, say, sha, shh, shy, sly, yah, yar.
	-5 letters: ah, al, ar, as, ay, ha, la, sh, ya.
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