Synonyms for harshly
harsh·ly

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1. harshlyadverb

   in a harsh or unkind manner

   "`That's enough!,' he cut in harshly"

   Synonyms:
   raspingly, gratingly

2. gratingly, raspingly, harshlyadverb

   in a harsh and grating manner

   "her voice fell gratingly on our ears"

   Synonyms:
   raspingly, gratingly

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1. List of paraphrases for "harshly":

   severely, hard, strongly, sharply

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1. David Turner:

   What we’ve seen in 2017 and 2018 is a high level of enthusiasm among Democratic voters, pawlenty is eerily similar to Ed Gillespie in Virginia. Both had harshly criticized President Trump in the past and lobbied for Wall Street. Now, Pawlenty is coming back to Minnesota and—like Gillespie—doesn’t know how to deal with the current Trump Republican party.

2. Dag Hammarskjöld:

   The UN is not just a product of do-gooders. It is harshly real. The day will come when men will see the U.N. and what it means clearly. Everything will be all right -- you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction, and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

3. The Dhammapada:

   Do not speak harshly to any one those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful blows for blows will touch thee.

4. Justin Honard:

   It sort of jams the systems of gender that are so harshly in place in our culture, and it sort of confuses that for a second and ... creates a space where it's like: 'Oh. We're not just the clothes that we wear, we're not just what it says on our drivers license'.

5. John Glaser:

   By and large, this is seen as a sign of the gradual decline in the importance of the Palestinian cause among Arab regimes, the UAE hoped to get some credit for caring about the fate of the Palestinians, but since the deal only brought a temporary halt to Israeli annexation plans, the Palestinians have harshly criticized the UAE for betraying them.