Noah Webster
Harshly
H'ARSHLY, adverb Roughly; in a harsh manner.
1. Sourly; austerely.
2. Severely; morosely; crabbedly; as, to speak or answer harshly
3. Roughly; rudely; with violence; as, to treat a person harshly
4. Roughly; with a grating sound; unpleasantly.
It would sound harshly in her ears.