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harshly

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
harsh/hɑːʃ/

▶adjective

1 unpleasantly rough or jarring to the senses.

2 cruel or severe.
■ (of reality or a fact) grim and unpalatable.

– derivatives
harshen verb,
harshly adverb,
harshness noun.

– origin ME: from Mid. Low Ger. harsch ‘rough’, lit. ‘hairy’, from haer ‘hair’.

'harshly' also found in these Oxford entries:

bray - come - dump - flay - hard - hardly - harsh - lambaste - piece - punish - rod - shaft - stick - work

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