Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HARSH'LY, adv.

1. Roughly; in a harsh manner.
2. Sourly; austerely.
3. Severely; morosely; crabbedly; as, to speak or answer harshly.
4. Roughly; rudely; with violence; as, to treat a person harshly. – Addison.
5. Roughly; with a grating sound; unpleasantly. It would sound harshly in her ears. – Shak.