Related Clues:

• Jarring to the eye
• Like an Alaskan winter
• Extremely unkind
• Tough to endure
• Like pumice
• Like winters in the Arctic
• Disrupt, as a mellow
• Far from gentle
• Sandpaper-like
• Severe, as criticism
• Like Russian winters
• Very severe
• Unnecessarily severe
• Ungentle
• Crueler than necessary