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harsh
adjective as in rough, crude (to the senses)
Strong match
Weak matches
acrid, asperous, astringent, cacophonous, caterwauling, clashing, cracked, craggy, creaking, croaking, disagreeing, discordant, dissonant, disturbing, earsplitting, flat, glaring, grating, guttural, hoarse, incompatible, jagged, jangling, jarring, noisy, not smooth, off-key, out-of-key, out-of-tune, rasping, raucous, rugged, rusty, screeching, sour, stridulous, tuneless, uneven, unlevel, unmelodious, unmusical, unrelenting
adjective as in nasty, abusive
Strongest matches
bitter, brutal, cruel, grim, hard, punitive, relentless, rude, ruthless, severe, sharp, stern, stringent, tough, unkind, unpleasant
Weak matches
austere, comfortless, cussed, discourteous, dour, gruff, hairy, hard-boiled, hard-nosed, hard-shell, mean, pitiless, uncivil, unfeeling, ungracious, unrelenting, wicked
Example Sentences
Why, some might be asking, am I being so harsh on their work so soon after they died?
And, she added, “In other neighborhoods, I feel they are a little harsh.”
Your letter highlights so many of the harsh realities trans people face, specifically in regard to how society rejects us.
Your death is symbolic of the harsh reality facing so many of us.
But this was the year when criticism of said women finally got the harsh words it deserved.
Where these overtones are interfered with by any imperfection in the instrument the result is a harsh or imperfect sound.
A car conductor is instructed to treat passengers civilly and to use no harsh means with them, save in extreme cases.
In the humour her spouse was then in she had better have remained silent—she told him, that he was harsh and unjust.
“He hath told us already, Princess,” said the other, his harsh accents sounding more like the snarl of a wolf than a human voice.
He was considered a harsh Governor because his martial law administration was characterized by severe punishment for wrongdoing.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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