Words similar to harsh

Example sentences for: harsh

How can you use “harsh” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Still, I find your architectural critique unduly harsh.
The old stone buildings were designed to beat the harsh winters with distintive, tall, steep-sloping roofs to keep the weighty snow and ice from accumulating.
If you think that the practice in some Muslim countries of amputating the hand of a thief is harsh, beware of participating in horse shows in England, where there is no capital punishment but the issue arises every few years:
Kevorkian's lawyer's spin: The death was a victimless crime, the verdict is an injustice, the sentence was too harsh, and Kevorkian will starve himself to death in prison.
In the past few days, harsh sentences were handed out in Hangzhou to founder members of China's Democratic Party and there were further arrests of dissidents and Falun Gong supporters," the SCMP said.