hardly
IPA: hˈɑrdɫi
adverb
- (degree) Barely, only just, almost not.
- Certainly not; not at all.
- (now rare) With difficulty.
- (manner, archaic) Harshly, severely; in a hard manner.
- (manner, obsolete) Firmly, vigorously, with strength or exertion.
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Examples of "hardly" in Sentences
- Incrimination is hardly neutral.
- The list is hardly maintainable.
- I'd hardly call that a pittance.
- That is hardly earthshaking news.
- It is hardly the end of the world.
- This is hardly the case in the east.
- This is hardly the fault of the article.
- That is hardly the answer to the problem.
- Acting is hardly a profession for the reclusive.
- Disapproving of a website on the internet is hardly that.
- The title hardly sounded formidable, but Egypt ' s bureaucracy was legendary.
- Late last night, an anonymous resident from Akira Hall had recognized Aya and rekicked to her feed, but by then the fact that she had a name hardly mattered.
- The "extras" -- the word hardly does them justice -- include a Loach profile on TV's Southbank show from 1993, a new documentary about the making of the film and his landmark feature Cathy Come Home, a massively popular TV movie as worthy of attention on its own as anything Loach has done.
- He slept throughout the entire journey and woke only toward the end of the afternoon as we jolted down the narrow lane to Misenum, where Lucullus had his—well, I was going to call it a house, but the word hardly fits that veritable palace of pleasure, the Villa Cornelia, which he had bought and extended on the coast.
- Here's the Joint Working Group on what it refers to as "spoof," though the term hardly does justice to its gravity: States or terrorist organizations, for reasons that might range from protecting secrets to preventing attribution, may attempt to spoof any later investigation by mixing material from different sources.