harshest in English

adjective

1

unpleasantly rough or jarring to the senses.

drenched in a harsh white neon light

synonyms: grating, jarring, rasping, strident, raucous, brassy, discordant, unharmonious, unmelodious, screeching, shrill, rough, coarse, hoarse, gruff, croaky, glaring, bright, dazzling, loud, garish, gaudy, lurid, bold

2

cruel or severe.

a time of harsh military discipline

synonyms: cruel, savage, barbarous, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannical, tyrannous, ruthless, merciless, pitiless, relentless, unmerciful, severe, strict, intolerant, illiberal, iron-fisted, hard-hearted, heartless, unkind, inhuman, inhumane, severe, stringent, draconian, firm, stiff, hard, stern, rigorous, grim, uncompromising, punitive, cruel, brutal, austere, grim, spartan, hard, comfortless, inhospitable, stark, bleak, desolate

adjective

grating, jarring, rasping, strident, raucous, brassy, discordant, unharmonious, unmelodious, screeching, shrill, rough, coarse, hoarse, gruff, croaky
glaring, bright, dazzling, loud, garish, gaudy, lurid, bold
cruel, savage, barbarous, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannical, tyrannous, ruthless, merciless, pitiless, relentless, unmerciful, severe, strict, intolerant, illiberal, iron-fisted, hard-hearted, heartless, unkind, inhuman, inhumane
severe, stringent, draconian, firm, stiff, hard, stern, rigorous, grim, uncompromising, punitive, cruel, brutal
rude, discourteous, uncivil, impolite, unfriendly, sharp, bitter, abusive, unkind, disparaging, abrupt, brusque, curt, gruff, short, surly, offhand
austere, grim, spartan, hard, comfortless, inhospitable, stark, bleak, desolate
hard, severe, cold, bitter, bleak, freezing, icy, arctic, polar, Siberian
abrasive, strong, caustic, coarse, rough
coarse
abrasive
rough

Use "harshest" in a sentence

1. Cheating deserves our harshest condemnation.

2. It is the harshest penalty allowed under the law of the country.

3. The Albm is built to handle the harshest environments

4. 11 The harshest criticism came from right-wing ideologists.

5. Cline Doors manufactures quality doors to withstand the harshest environments

6. Synonyms for Coarsest include roughest, jaggedest, bumpiest, ruggedest, lumpiest, scraggiest, pebbliest, harshest, grittiest and hardest

7. Treeless regions found in and around the Arctic, tundras are among Earth's coldest, harshest biomes.

8. The next winter was the harshest in memory and Snow White's mother passed away.

9. Synonyms for Austerest include sternest, severest, strictest, harshest, coldest, hardest, grimmest, flintiest, gravest and seriousest

10. One of the harshest penalties levied on an athlete occurs in the game of golf.

11. Synonyms for acridest include Acerbest, sourest, sharpest, bitterest, tartest, tangiest, harshest, zingiest, zestiest and strongest

12. Synonyms for Acerbest include sourest, sharpest, acridest, bitterest, tartest, tangiest, harshest, zingiest, zestiest and unpleasantest

13. Antonyms for Balmiest include harshest, roughest, coarsest, hardest, severest, sternest, winteriest, wintriest, barmiest and stormiest

14. Synonyms for Barrenest include aridest, boniest, deadest, poorest, starkest, barest, emptiest, austerest, bleakest and harshest

15. Synonyms for Brassiest include loudest, harshest, noisiest, boldest, brashest, sauciest, shrillest, archest, cheekiest and cockiest

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21. Salt and sugar scrubs tend to be the harshest, while scrubs containing beads or rice bran are typically very gentle.

22. For this novel, Murakami received the Yomiuri Literary Award, which was awarded to him by one of his harshest former critics, Kenzaburō Ōe.

23. As the oldest manufacturer of flush aluminum doors in the country, Cline prides itself on manufacturing quality doors and frames that withstand the harshest environments.

24. Developed and tested in Australia, one of the harshest climates in the world, Bonaire Durango coolers have been specifically designed for the US cooling market.

25. The lyrics, which he penned as well, offer some of the most blatant and harshest critiques of Jim Crow attitudes in all of jazz activism.

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30. Aggravating factors are any relevant circumstances, supported by the evidence presented during the trial, that makes the harshest penalty appropriate, in the judgment of the jurors or judge.

31. As part of the testing, all of the guns were immersed in mud and covered with sand to simulate the harshest environments in which they would be used.

32. Known by her peers as the most friendly, helpful, genuine and outgoing contestant in the pageant, Miss Congeniality is an award given by the harshest judges of all: the other contestants.

33. In September 2012, in a one-day trial of three dissidents including Ta Phong Tan and Phan Thanh Hai, Nguyen Van Hai received the harshest sentence of twelve years in prison.

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35. Synonyms & Antonyms of Castigation suffering, loss, or hardship imposed in response to a crime or offense the loss of his father's trust was the harshest Castigation that the boy could have possibly received for having told the lie

36. In November 2015, psychiatrist Khwaja Khusro Tariq from The Huffington Post classified the term as an unsubstantiated ad hominem attack, stating that the harshest critics of Islam are courted by both liberal and conservative media in the United States.