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Definition of Harsh

Harsh

  1. Rough; disagreeable; grating
  2. disagreeable to the touch.
  3. disagreeable to the taste.
  4. disagreeable to the ear.
  5. Unpleasant and repulsive to the sensibilities; austere; crabbed; morose; abusive; abusive; severe; rough.
  6. Having violent contrasts of color, or of light and shade; lacking in harmony.

Harsh Quotations

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.
Henry David Thoreau

I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.
Carroll O'Connor

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

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

Whoever is new to power is always harsh.
Aeschylus
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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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