The phrase "a harsh upbringing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a difficult or challenging childhood experience that may have impacted a person's development.
Example: "Despite having a harsh upbringing, she managed to overcome her struggles and achieve great success."
Alternatives: "a difficult childhood" or "a tough upbringing".
She captures the stark difficulty of not repressing the harrowing specter of a harsh upbringing but instead integrating her memories into the greater tapestry of her adult life.
He was standing by his locker in the Blue Jays' spring-training clubhouse, in Dunedin, Florida, where I noticed an overturned copy of "This Boy's Life," Tobias Wolff's memoir of surviving a harsh upbringing.
She is not twee and Pollyanna-ish (it suddenly occurs to me that I should almost certainly reread Pollyanna too) but a doughty survivor of a harsh upbringing who has refused to let circumstances crush her spirit.
On the other hand, despite a harsh upbringing documented in their respective 'Gladue reports' the detailing of family history that a defence can submit during sentencing to ask for leniency for Indigenous offenders for Judge Jackson there did remain the sticky situation of gun handling and pointing, which remained no-nos for anyone not wearing a police uniform on the morning of October 17.
After a difficult childhood, saddened by frequent illnesses and the harsh upbringing by his overbearing father, Cardano enrolled at the University of Pavia to study medicine in 1520 against his father's wish.
After a fiery, slow-motion prologue, announcing the Okinawa battles to come, the first hour of "Hacksaw Ridge" depicts Doss' often harsh upbringing in Lynchburg, Va., beaten regularly by his alcoholic wreck of a World War I veteran father (Hugo Weaving) and comforted by a loving mother (Rachel Griffiths).
From the moment she left behind her harsh upbringing in Mount Gilead, Ohio, and arrived in Manhattan, in 1918, she dove into city life with an outlander's anthropological zeal.
Beyond that, the ancient sources contain vague allusions to Illyricum as his homeland, to his Pannonian virtues, and to his harsh upbringing along the war-torn Danube frontier.
Like Smith, Lynch had a rough upbringing.
That is a harsh judgment.
