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Webster 1913 Edition

adv.

In a harsh manner; gratingly; roughly; rudely.

’T will sound

harshly

in her ears.

Shakespeare

adv.

Roughly; in a harsh manner.

Sourly; austerely.

Severely; morosely; crabbedly; as, to speak or answer harshly.

Roughly; rudely; with violence; as, to treat a person harshly.

Roughly; with a grating sound; unpleasantly.

It would sound harshly in her ears.

harshly ‎(comparative harshlier, superlative harshliest)

In a harsh manner; severely.
- 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I.193:
  Yet, if I name my guilt, 't is not to boast, / None can deem harshlier of me than I deem [...].
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 7, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
  The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.

in a harsh manner; severely