Harsh
Rough; disagreeable; grating
disagreeable to the touch.
disagreeable to the taste.
disagreeable to the ear.
Unpleasant and repulsive to the sensibilities; austere; crabbed; morose; abusive; abusive; severe; rough.
Having violent contrasts of color, or of light and shade; lacking in harmony.
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Harsh Quotations
Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.
Henry David Thoreau
Whoever is new to power is always harsh.
Aeschylus
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
H. G. Wells
Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.
Dylan Thomas
The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.
Michael Bloomberg
I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.
William Lloyd Garrison
The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'
Tertullian
Well, I'm not afraid to say something if I think it's funny, even if it's harsh or racist.
Sarah Silverman
I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the exact same stuff people said about Madonna. And it's like, she didn't care. Madonna just came out and was herself. I respect that a lot.
Britney Spears
Don't let negativity affect your vision. A lot of people have said harsh things, but I don't let it affect me. If anything it gives me more enthusiasm and pushes me to do better in my career so I can prove them wrong.
Nicole Polizzi
Harsh Translations
harsh in Dutch is beestachtig, bruut, ruw, dierlijk
harsh in French is vulgaire, rugueux
harsh in German is herb, unglimpflich, rauh
harsh in Italian is scabro
harsh in Latin is durus, asper
harsh in Norwegian is barsk, hard, streng, besk
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