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adverb

Hardly adv.

In a hard or difficult manner; with difficulty. "Recovering hardly what he lost before."

Unwillingly; grudgingly. "The House of Peers gave so hardly their consent."

Scarcely; barely; not quite; not wholly. "Hardly shall you find any one so bad, but he desires the credit of being thought good."

Severely; harshly; roughly. "He has in many things been hardly used."

Confidently; hardily. (Obs.)

Certainly; surely; indeed. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Hardly'

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"Hardly" Quotes from Famous Books

... "I've hardly spoken two words to him in my life," she replied. And it was true, although the little white parsonage was scarce two hundred yards from ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... shaved off all of that beard and part of his eyebrows—they used to meet plumb in the middle, remember—till a body would hardly know him. I didn't. I knowed they was somethin' familiar about him, but I couldn't tell what till you mentioned Pap and the town together. Then I knowed. Yeah, Bull, this gent's the same Bill Smith Pap picked up on the trail. He's a respectable member of society ...

— The Heart of the Range • William Patterson White

... a half-mile distant, was the mainland; green fields, grey cliffs, white houses! In reality the distance was well over a mile and a quarter, but so clear had the atmosphere suddenly become that the space of tumbled green water intervening looked hardly more than a swimmer's stunt! They cheered and would have waved their caps had they had any to wave. A small steamer was ducking her way along near shore and they could almost see the spray tossing from the bow. They found a nearer way to the top of ...

— The Adventure Club Afloat • Ralph Henry Barbour

... 425: Mr. Lang points out that he made many written notes of his reading, as we should hardly expect a man of his unrivalled memory to do. ...

— Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature • Margaret Ball

... callings that in several European countries they long monopolised them. They made and sold mats, baskets, and small articles of wood. They have shown great skill as dancers, musicians, singers, acrobats; and it is a rule almost without exception that there is hardly a travelling company of such performers, or a theatre in Europe or America, in which there is not at least one person with some Romany blood. Their hair remains black to advanced age, and they retain it longer than do Europeans ...

— Gipsy Life - being an account of our Gipsies and their children • George Smith

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