harsh

01. The weather in Russia's far north is extremely [harsh] in the winter time.

02. I think spanking a child is pretty [harsh] punishment for accidentally breaking a window.

03. The [harshness] of the living conditions in the work camps caused many young men to quit after a couple of weeks.

04. The [harsh] criticism of the play in the newspaper really upset the actors.

05. This detergent is much too [harsh] for your silk blouse; it'll ruin it.

06. This soap is too [harsh] to use on a baby's skin.

07. I think the school principal was too [harsh] in suspending the students for cheating on one test.

08. A space probe sent to Mars has revealed that although the Red Planet once had water, the environment was so [harsh] that it may have prevented life from developing.

09. This homemade wine has a [harsh] taste.

10. British colonial policies were extremely [harsh] in the colony of Kenya.

11. "That's pretty [harsh]," said Trevor, when I told him I'd flunked my test.

12. Sloan Wilson once said that it is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by [harshness], not by kindness.

13. There is a Congolese proverb which states that man is like palm-wine: when young, sweet but without strength; in old age, strong but [harsh].

14. Most whales and other marine mammals avoid the [harsh] winters of the Arctic, and migrate to warmer waters.

15. The climate of Mesopotamia was [harsh], so its people had to learn irrigation to make the land fertile.

16. Singer Elvis Presley treated his hair so [harshly] with dyes and styling products that, by the time he was forty, it had turned totally white.

17. The countries of the Sahel desert have a [harsh] and difficult environment.

18. The weather of Albania is often [harsh] and unpredictable.

19. Kuwait has a [harsh] desert climate with long, hot summers, and temperatures up to 46 degrees centigrade.