Harsher [adjective]

In the present case, both this and is are unaccented, which is much harsher than when this bears an accent.

Under the latter he was deprived of his preferment in Oxford, and under a harsher rule might have incurred yet graver penalties.

This is the more significant in that the Central Authority, in one case at least, had tried a harsher expedient.

She had been a model as a child, with blurred memories of older and harsher beings about her who had long since faded away.

Calavius was furious and paused, as if to give orders for harsher repression.

Happily, the little child was to evade that harsher penalty—the unwarranted bitterness and affront of a lingering, palsied age.

Some people might call him by a harsher name; we content ourselves with the popular vernacular.

His physical beauty alone was a thing to fascinate far harsher critics than these two who grew to be his special friends.

It sounded like the blowing of great bellows, with now and then a note harsher and louder, like the roaring of a bull.

With the taint of disaffection visible around him, his government began to take a harsher tone.