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overharshly

overharshly adverb: in an excessively harsh manner.

Adverb

overharshly (comparative more overharshly, superlative most overharshly)

  1. In an excessively harsh manner.
    • His early dreams haunted him like reproaches; and every morning he rose with the full purpose of pursuing some more settled plan: but he lacked motive, he had no one dependent on his industry; and every day he grew to care less and less for hopes, that he now overharshly held to be illusions.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 155

Forms of overharshly

comparativemore overharshly
superlativemost overharshly

Questions about overharshly

What does overharshly mean?
Overharshly means in an excessively harsh manner.
What part of speech is overharshly?
Overharshly is an adverb.

Words near overharshly in the dictionary

  1. overhardens
  2. overhardly
  3. overhardness
  4. overhardy
  5. overharsh
  6. overharshly
  7. overharshness
  8. overharvest
  9. overharvested
  10. overharvesting
  11. overharvests

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