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. Aimani Dadayeva:

   He served his so-called motherland for 12 years. They threw him into the toughest areas, into the mountains to fight insurgents. He was a model fighter with a heap of state medals, and for them (the authorities) to use him for their own ends and to accuse him so harshly? ... I don't want anybody to use us for their own ends.

2. James Anthony Kenny:

   Thou should not judge harshly, because thou too will be so judged by the same measure

3. 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.

4. Bassam Abu Hamad:

   It's a patriarchal community so women are judged more harshly.

5. The Justice Department trying:

   I am quite aware that there are people who are criticizing us for not prosecuting sufficiently, and others who are complaining that we are prosecuting too harshly, this is, you know, part of the territory for any prosecutor in any case.