(adv.) In a harsh manner; gratingly; roughly; rudely.
Example Sentences:
(1) Federal judges who blocked the bans cited harsh rhetoric employed by Trump on the campaign trail , specifically a pledge to ban all Muslims from entering the US and support for giving priority to Christian refugees, as being reflective of the intent behind his travel ban.
(2) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
(3) On referral to our clinic, his physical examination and tape recording were characterized by harsh inspiratory stridor.
(4) There are harsh lessons in football and we have learned some over the last week.” Two James Milner penalties and goals from the impressive Adam Lallana, Sadio Mané and Philippe Coutinho took Liverpool’s tally to 24 in eight games.
(5) The tougher external environment in 2015 means that our businesses and functions need to work … to take a number of measures in response to the harsh trading environment,” Dudley said, according to a memo reported by Reuters.
(6) I couldn't shake the harsh words from my head and worried about if, or when, they would spill over into real life.
(7) A former senior CIA official said the secretary of state at the time, Colin Powell, eventually was informed about the program and sat in meetings in which harsh interrogation techniques were discussed.
(8) The results indicate the presence of carbohydrate epitopes buried within collagenous polypeptides that are exposed by harsh denaturing conditions.
(9) Official papers released by the National Archives show that the "wets" – notably Jim Prior, Peter Walker, Ian Gilmour, Mark Carlisle, Lord Soames and Francis Pym – were able to demonstrate that a majority of the cabinet rejected as unnecessarily harsh Sir Geoffrey Howe's demands for further public spending cuts and tax cuts.
(10) We report a case of a 17 year old boy who was referred for evaluation of a large anterior mediastinal mass, causing dyspnea and cough and resulting in a harsh systolic murmur.
(11) I appeal to the king of Saudi Arabia to exercise his power to halt the public flogging by pardoning Mr Badawi, and to urgently review this type of extraordinarily harsh penalty.” Badawi’s case was one of several recent prosecutions of activists.
(12) • Very robust questioning, known as the harsh approach, could be banned – or if not "the approach should not include an analogy with a military drill sergeant".
(13) He said he did not oppose the criminalisation of homosexuality but said imprisonment and the death penalty are too harsh.
(14) Fellow opposition activists and sympathisers took the harsh sentence as a sign that heavy jail terms awaited the rest.
(15) Pledge news: harsh • 26 Jan , Darragh MacAnthony, Peterborough chairman on the "incredibly harsh" abuse by fans of manager Mark Cooper: "Nobody has given the bloke a chance.
(16) But initial fan reaction to the first teaser trailers was harsh.
(17) The probability of skin-galvanic reaction appearance was harshly decreased.
(18) Offshore detention with increased isolation in remote and harsh circumstances exaggerates that adversity.
(19) Pictures of the concentration camps served to reinforce the necessity of the war and its unavoidably harsh economic legacy.
(20) If you're in doubt of the impact this can have, "brand imagery" studies show that when participants smoke the exact same cigarettes presented in lighter coloured packs, or in packs with "mild" in the name, they rate the smoke as lighter and less harsh, simply through the power of suggestion.
Heckle
Definition:
(n. & v. t.) Same as Hackle.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I was at a comedy club trying to do my act, and I got heckled and I took it badly and went into a rage," Richards said.
(2) The performance was not without some good‑natured heckling, largely involving bellowed chants of "We want you to stay" from the assembled playing staff.
(3) Actually, I had betrayed the seriousness of what had happened, because my story ignored the fact that I had been genuinely frightened and in a degree of danger during the heckling.
(4) I told her how sorry I was, and that I thought she was heckling because she hated my show.
(5) Malcolm Turnbull heckled by Liberals as anger lingers over Tony Abbott's ouster Read more Villatora, who had earlier warned the NSW state council about the party increasingly resembling “a closed shop”, said the limited trials between now and 2019 were an “important step towards a fully democratic party”.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nicky Morgan heckled at NASUWT conference – video No one had consulted, it seems, the hundreds of Tory-controlled councils that regard running education as one of their big jobs.
(7) One said: “We should read the bills before we pass the bills.” There were heckles from Republicans.
(8) In Riga, a city with a majority of ethnic Russians, a small band of protesters heckled the marchers with calls such as: "Shame on you", "A disgrace" and "What is there to be proud of?"
(9) Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney was heckled repeatedly during his closing rally of the Iowa campaign, with shouts that he is ignoring the poor and is too close to Wall Street.
(10) At one point, Watson was heckled by an audience member.
(11) Seann Walsh: It's bad when someone heckles you by shouting out "Taxi!".
(12) Helena says there are reports that the mission chiefs were also heckled as they arrived, but there are no further incidents reported.
(13) The funniest heckle I’ve ever had When I was a larger man, I went onstage wearing a stripy T-shirt and someone shouted: “Horizontal stripes are a fat man no-no!” Harsh but fair.
(14) I want you to be very happy.” But the politeness very quickly faded as he interrupted, heckled, rolled his eyes and tried to throw the authority figure off her game with lies.
(15) CND stewards threw out the hecklers just as Labour party conference stewards had thrown out CND's Walter Wolfgang when he heckled Jack Straw the previous month.
(16) Republican healthcare bill limps into recess with no vote in sight Read more Amid heckling and chanting, Cassidy attempted to describe his efforts to draft new legislation and answered angry questioning about the Senate healthcare plan which did not come to a vote this week , after party leaders realised they did not have enough votes to pass it.
(17) But in Dundee’s Overgate shopping centre, where Murphy was heckled by yes supporters during his pro-union speaking tour last summer, the impact of Scottish Labour’s recent pronouncements on welfare, fracking or the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership appears minimal.
(18) They call me names – some of them even heckle me at public meetings.
(19) This is my objection to the reforms being proposed – whether from the inside by threatening exit, or by exiting and heckling from the sidelines.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Confrontations with protesters in Reno were few compared with other campaign stops, leaving Trump begging for a protester to heckle.