harsh word
cross word
angry word

Coming from my mother these were very harsh words indeed.

He wouldn't so much as speak a harsh word to him.

I would have given the world to take back every harsh word.

Your day is over, and harsh words are all you have now.

I never remember to have received a harsh word from him.

Those are kind of harsh words, but that's what everybody wants.

There was truth in the harsh words he had heard.

She did not want any more harsh words to pass between them.

Then there are those who always have a harsh word for another.

Today he still had harsh words about Republican military spending.