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Harshly
"Harshly" in a Sentence (15 examples)
I really spoke too harshly.
He spoke yet more harshly.
Chokichi keenly felt that people, as they get older, forget entirely about the worries that only young people know about and that they themselves experienced in their youth; and that they nonchalantly take this convenient disposition where they judge harshly the circumstances of the young persons born of the next generation. He felt that there was truly an irreconcilable gap between the old and the young.
Don't judge me too harshly.
She sat in splendid rooms, richly decorated with silk and velvet; not a breath of air was allowed to blow upon her, and no one was allowed to speak to her harshly, for she was nurse to the count's child.
Don't judge Tom too harshly.
The study found that African-American students were disciplined more often and more harshly than other students.
The waiting-maid commanded her harshly to take off her royal robes, and to put on her common ones.
If they do what I say, I will be very generous. If not... Well, let's just say I deal harshly with insubordination.
I wish I hadn't scolded Tom so harshly.
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Yet, if I name my guilt, 't is not to boast, / None can deem harshlier of me than I deem [...].
The traveller hears me now and then, And sometimes harshly will he speak: ‘This fellow would make weakness weak, And melt the waxen hearts of men.’
The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.
Oh, those cruel and blitheless asses! Did they know my thoughts, my dreams, as I searched the sweet mystery of myself for the hidden meaning of my life? They did not. They judged me harshly for a few paltry actions.
Clinton said she is has grown “very disappointed and sorry that Christianity, which has such great love at its core, is sometimes used to condemned so quickly and judge so harshly when I think part of the message that I certainly have tried to understand and live with is to look at yourself first.”
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