harsh

harshly | American Dictionary

harshly
adverb
us/ˈhɑrʃ·li/

harshlyadverb (CRUELLY)

in an unkind or cruel way:
Violators are being dealt with harshly.

harshlyadverb (SEVERELY)

in a severe or unpleasant way:
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Examples of harshly

harshly
Innocent children become the victims of these parents and are harshly treated.
While the behavior of nonurban committees did not change, urban committees in home-rule legislatures treated urban legislation more harshly than those in non-home-rule legislatures.
With opposition now appearing synonymous with disloyalty and treason, the temptation increases to treat supporters of the old regime harshly.
Warming is likely to damage these regions more harshly than the more temperate zones of each country.
Several host teachers noted, however, that many of the trainees selfevaluated themselves very harshly and sometimes lacked self-confidence.
Loyalists were rewarded handsomely, while dissenters were harshly punished.
Local initiatives independent of the centre were not encouraged, and any signs of deviation and dissent were dealt with harshly.
Alternatively, these later harmed children may have suppressed their misbehavior at home, where they would be harshly punished for it.
You are disciplined more harshly than other kids because of your race?
She might abandon her friends curtly or harshly, with no explanation or sorrow.
The deteriorating economic conditions - caused by both poor implementation and poor sequencing of the economic reform programme - affected the manufacturing industry particularly harshly.
Those involved in distributing heretical literature to scholars were more harshly dealt with as the most dangerous of all.
However, in the off-diagonal cells, the reciprocity norm is violated and both parties are judged harshly.
Similarly, children who are disciplined harshly may learn that their parents have perspectives that are very discrepant from their own.
First there is the worry about the harshly utilitarian nature of my argument.
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