Related Clues:

• Like an arctic winter
• Not lenient
• Acerb
• More than unpleasant
• Like a crow's call
• Like cold, snowy winters
• Unforgiving
• Scathing
• Jarring to the eye
• Like an Alaskan winter
• Extremely unkind
• Tough to endure
• Like winters in the Arctic
• Disrupt, as a mellow
• Far from gentle