verb
definition
To negatively criticize.
example
Quit harshing me already, I said that I was sorry!
definition
To put a damper on (a mood).
example
Dude, you're harshing my buzz.
adjective
definition
Unpleasantly rough to the touch or other senses.
definition
Severe or cruel.
Examples of harsh in a Sentence
Her voice was harsh and raspy.
Protected from the harsh winter storms, the valley was already lush and green.
I was shocked at how harsh reality can be.
The robed man returned and spoke in the harsh tongue.
That affair was the same thing as this soldier with the harsh voice, and it was that affair and this soldier that were so agonizingly, incessantly pulling and pressing his arm and always dragging it in one direction.
His features were chiseled, the firelight casting harsh shadows across the planes of his face.
Deidre drank it down, hissing at the burn of the harsh liquid.
The man paused and whispered something in a harsh tongue.
I couldn't have known what was in his head, she replied, agitated by his harsh words.
I do not know any song; and my voice is harsh and unpleasant.
He hadn't thought it as harsh as it was, just like he thought nothing of killing anything in his path, but seeing the look on a normal human's face reminded him he'd been close to losing what humanity he possessed for quite a while.
She jumped at the harsh words.
Who gave orders? he said in his shrill, harsh voice.
My voice is harsh and I cannot sing.
She looked out of the front of the cell into a small corridor with equally harsh lighting.
The result of this harsh law was that numerous applications were made to Rome for secret absolution; and thus much money escaped the Inquisition in Spain.
The men of his time had been harsh with them, and he thought he was doing well by tolerating her.
That seems to be a very harsh way of regarding your sisters' future happiness.
His tone was neither harsh nor teasing.
His voice was so harsh that Adrienne took a step backward.
His honey-colored eyes were visible in the harsh lighting of the room.
The worst form of such praedial slavery existed in Sicily, whither Mommsen supposes that its peculiarly harsh features had been brought by the Carthaginians.
With Pfuel was Wolzogen, who expressed Pfuel's thoughts in a more comprehensible way than Pfuel himself (who was a harsh, bookish theorist, self-confident to the point of despising everyone else) was able to do.
Rhyn was a wild animal with a wild beauty, harsh angles and planes, a body built for survival.
The general experience of the decade of the 'eighties was that of disappointing summers, harsh winters, falling prices, declining rents and the shrinkage of land values.
Then suddenly the grating sound of a harsh voice was heard from the other side of the door, and the officer--with pale face and trembling lips--came out and passed through the waiting room, clutching his head.
I don't mean to be harsh, but we'll have to replace him pretty damn soon and we've only got so much budget.
Religious toleration was granted, but with the important exception that some harsh measures were enacted against Anglicans and Roman Catholics, to neither of whom was liberty of worship accorded.
Floriano Peixoto had been accustomed all his life to use harsh measures.
Her first strike might as well have been in slow motion; no one moved like he did with brute strength that flattened her after a particularly harsh block.
That doom was postponed; but Catholics everywhere saw with pain the harsh treatment accorded to a defenceless old man.
It may be doubted - though it seems a harsh verdict to pass 1 One must remember that these reinforcements would often consist of desperate characters.
His conduct in Sicily was severe and harsh, but he was not without feelings of humanity, and he was an honest man and a good administrator.
A few weeks after their argument, Rachel and Eric's harsh feelings toward each other began to abate.
Men's summer hats keep your head, face, and neck protected against the sun's harsh rays.
His laugh was short and harsh.
This treachery and the harsh treatment by Patterson created a strong public opinion in favour of the Yankees, and the government was compelled to adopt a milder policy.
Such multiple-electrode transmitters give a loud although somewhat harsh sound, and will bear being spoken to very strongly without breaking the circuit.
The reaction, which was dull and heavy in the dominions of the pope and of Victor Emmanuel, systematically harsh in the Austrian states of the north, and comparatively mild in Parma and Tuscany, excited the greatest loathing in southern Italy and Sicily, because there it was directed by a dynasty which had aroused feelings of hatred mingled with contempt.
In some of those birds which have a peculiarly harsh or trumpeting voice, the trachea is lengthened, forming loops which lie subcutaneously (capercally, curassow), or it enters and dilates the symphysis of the furcula (crested guineafowl); or, e.g.
Among the higher altitudes of north Derbyshire, where the soil is poor and the climate harsh, grain is unable to flourish, while even in the more sheltered parts of this region the harvest is usually belated.
The fibre is generally white, somewhat harsh and wiry, and especially adapted for mixing with wool.
Marie galante is a harsh cotton of the Peruvian or Brazilian type.
The avifauna is varied and abundant, comprising eagles, vultures (protected by law), hawks, owls, pelicans, cranes, turkeys, geese, partridges " (called quail or " Bob White " elsewhere), ducks, &c., besides numerous smaller species, many of which are brilliant of plumage but harsh of voice.
In 1634 he published his Traite de la predestination, in which he tried to mitigate the harsh features of predestination by his "Universalismus hypotheticus."
And even during the first years of the harsh Lombard rule the need recognized by these oppressors of defending the Italian coast from the attacks of the Byzantines was favourable to the development of the Pisan navy.
He had prepared to distinguish himself as an orator by the elaborate cultivation of his voice, which was naturally harsh and shrill.
The harsh treatment of the Hanoverian demands was inspired by him, and won favour with the queen, while Oxford's influence declined; and by his support of the Schism Bill in May 1714, a violent Tory measure forbidding all education by dissenters by making an episcopal licence obligatory for schoolmasters, he probably intended to compel Oxford to give up the game.
In his dispute with his brother, in his controversies with the English and Scottish mathematicians, and in his harsh and jealous bearing to his son Daniel, he showed a mean, unfair and violent temper.
There were at first murmurings among his clergy against what they deemed his harsh control, but his real kindness soon made itself felt, and, during the sixteen years of his tenure of the see, his sound and vigorous rule dissipated the prejudices against him, so that when, on the death of Dr John Jackson in 1885, he was translated to London, the appointment gave general satisfaction.