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Grammar : Adj
Spell : hahrsh
Phonetic Transcription : hɑrʃ



Definition of harshest

Origin :
  • originally of texture, "hairy," 1530s, probably from harske "rough, coarse, sour" (c.1300), a northern word of Scandinavian origin (cf. Danish and Norwegian harsk "rancid, rank"), related to Middle Low German harsch "rough, raw," German harst "a rake;" perhaps from PIE root *kars- "to scrape, scratch, rub, card" (cf. Lithuanian karsiu "to comb," Old Church Slavonic krasta, Russian korosta "to itch," Latin carduus "thistle," Sanskrit kasati "rubs, scratches"). Meaning "offensive to feelings" is from 1570s; "disagreeable, rude" from 1610s.
  • adj rough, crude (to the senses)
  • adj nasty, abusive
Example sentences :
  • In judging his fellow-men this is Shakespeare's harshest word.
  • Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
  • This is, as I have said, not the saddest, but certainly the harshest of his stories.
  • Extract from : « Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens » by G. K. Chesterton
  • The sound of that harshest and most jarring of all musical instruments was every after hateful to her.
  • Extract from : « We Two » by Edna Lyall
  • “Here, you, get a swab and mop that up,” I commanded in my harshest manner.
  • Extract from : « The Mutiny of the Elsinore » by Jack London
  • This was the harshest that my lady e'er spoke, either to me or to Marian.
  • Extract from : « A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales » by Amelie Rives
  • Out of it there came the harshest sounds that had ever been heard on the farm.
  • Extract from : « The Tale of Turkey Proudfoot » by Arthur Scott Bailey
  • I think that means, if it proves that she has deserved the harshest punishment.
  • Extract from : « Cleopatra, Complete » by Georg Ebers
  • And the harshest critics the motion pictures have are the people who work in them.
  • Extract from : « Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence » by Alice B. Emerson
  • Juvenal is the harshest and most violent of the four great Roman satirists.
  • Extract from : « A History of Roman Literature » by Harold North Fowler
  • What he received was the harshest punishment Parliament could devise.
  • Extract from : « George Fox » by George Fox

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