Meanings of extreme harshness in English

Napoleon treated the Knights and the Grand Master with extreme harshness.

She was a woman of a hateful disposition, and treated the little stranger from Tuckahoe with extreme harshness.

They had smoothed over the extreme harshness of their separation and there was very little more to be said.

Yet there was a distinct difference of taste: the 'plum' had not got the extreme harshness of the sloe.

Thence arose the extreme harshness of her husband, and the continued sneers and gibes of the wives who had been blest with offspring.

He indulged himself in a repetition of nearly the same passionate language, and again spoke, with extreme harshness of the conduct of the executive.

The father had visited the frailty of his unhappy child with extreme harshness, and even brutality, and it was said that she had died heart-broken.

This poor sect, which had neither the genius nor the learned organization of Judaism, properly so called, was treated by the Hierosolymites with extreme harshness.