The phrase "harshly negative" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a very critical or unfavorable attitude or response towards something.
Example: "The review was harshly negative, leaving no room for any positive feedback."
Alternatives: "severely critical" or "extremely unfavorable."
The New York Times editorial page was subdued, especially compared to its harshly negative coverage of the Lebanon war.
Bill Pascoe, Mr. Forrester's campaign manager, said in an interview on Tuesday that Mr. Torricelli's attack had been expected, and that its harshly negative tone would backfire.
He also owns one of Italy's biggest publishing houses, Mondadori, which several years ago released "The Black Book of Communism," a harshly negative appraisal of the ideology's legacy.
In the first round of reviews in February, which were almost all harshly negative, most theater critics lashed into the quartet of characters as superfluous.
Despite Mr. Gore's assurances, several Gore advisers and convention officials said that while they were mindful that the program should not appear harshly negative, some speakers would not shrink from aggressively taking on Mr. Bush and the Republicans.
Mr. Bradley's outburst came two days after Mr. Gore used a speech before a convention of the California Democratic Party to return to the harshly negative attacks on Mr. Bradley's campaign agenda and character that he had first used much earlier in the campaign.
And Bob Dole, the former Republican presidential nominee whom Mr. Forbes had harshly attacked with negative advertisements in the 1996 Republican primary, took out advertisements in The Des Moines Register and made television commercials chastising Mr. Forbes for attacking Mr. Bush.
Furthermore, in order to satisfy a common requirement in recommendation systems (i.e. that false positives are more undesirable and therefore should be penalized more harshly than false negatives), our approach can also allow tuning the trade-off between the precision and recall of the system in a principled way.
All three judges were negative, though not harshly so.
THE TAKEAWAY: Until now, every ad from Mr. Trump has been negative in tone and harshly critical of Mrs. Clinton, while the candidate has claimed on the stump that his opponent was running a negative, hate-filled campaign.
Talking about themselves negatively or harshly.
