overharshly
English
Adverb
overharshly (comparative more overharshly, superlative most overharshly)
- In an excessively harsh manner.
- 1837, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ethel Churchill, volume 2, page 155:
- 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.