Word Finder - hardly

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(manner) Firmly, vigorously, with strength or exertion.

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(manner) Harshly, severely; in a hard manner.

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I can't really deal hardly with people.

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With difficulty.

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(degree) Barely, only just, almost not.

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they hardly ever watch television;  I hardly think they'll come in this bad weather;  it's hardly possible he could lose the election.

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Not really.

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I think the Beatles are a really overrated band. ― Hardly!

I can hardly wait for the fun to begin!

He hardly knew how it tasted.

Hardly had they spoken these words when the door opened and Arion himself stood before them.

I could hardly believe it.

I believe that I have hardly begun yet to know what is possible.

There was hardly anyone in the streets.

She hardly knows me.

I can hardly wait to go to sleep!

Lydia Larkin was bent over at the waist, hardly able to stand, clutching her mid-section.

It was hardly fair to shift that responsibility solely to him.

Sofia could hardly sit still.

I can hardly wait.

I can hardly walk let alone lift a weapon.

She's such a little beauty I can hardly wait for the sun to set.

This girl's code, if it is in fact a code, is mostly one continuous line, with hardly any punctuation.

Glancing down at her sandaled feet, it occurred to her that she was hardly dressed for a walk in the woods.

As for men, they will hardly fail one anywhere.

Fine. I can hardly wait to get elected so I can get rid of those two winners you hired before you bailed out.

I hardly recognized him.

I can hardly wait patiently for the time to come when I shall see my dear English friends, and their beautiful island home.

They could hardly say she hadn't tried.

He could hardly be blamed if he chose to make her walk home.

Nowadays they cart them off to some baby sitter they hardly know, just to get the kids out of their hair.

Baffled. He really hardly knew her but thinks he's supposed act like he's grieving.

Martha showed little interest and had said hardly a word.

He could hardly wait for tomor­row's challenge.

Considering the problems they presented, she could hardly blame him for that.

There is hardly a page of Ovid which does not show obligations to his poems, while other writers made a more sparing use of his stories.

The vendetta, too, is now hardly ever heard of.

He hardly crosses the river to our side before we recross to the other.

If he intended her harm, he would hardly have fixed the door so it would lock from the inside.

Dean could hardly keep his eyes open as he rose to go to bed.

You'd hardly recognize him.

He was dressed in a spotless white pocket T-shirt and white sneakers - hardly clothes for a farm hand.

Sure, only three weeks of her vacation remained, and it would be fun to have someone to enjoy them with, but she was hardly looking for a serious relationship.

It is totally different in appearance from the pasture mushroom, and, like it, its characters are so distinct that there is hardly a possibility of making a mistake when its peculiarities are once comprehended.

Modern equity, it need hardly be said, does not profess to soften the rigour of the law, or to correct the errors into which it falls by reason of its generality.

Snow hardly ever falls near the coast, but is abundant in the higher parts of the island, though none remains throughout the summer.

Public security is considerably improved, and regular brigandage (as distinct from casual robbery) hardly exists.

If the Puritans regarded bowls with no friendly eye, as Lord Macaulay asserts, one can hardly wonder at it.

But guilt of that sort would hardly be consistent with his character as it appears in those early days.

He had hardly restored Macedonian prestige in this quarter when he heard that Greece was aflame.

As her health failed she hardly ever left the convent of the Carmelites in which she had been educated.

But it is hardly fair to contrast his practical counsel with the more ethical and spiritual teaching of the earlier Hebrew prophets.

I feel terrible making him sleep in the lab room, but really, Quinn's equipment hardly makes a sound.

The first important recorded act of Pericles falls in 463, when he helped to prosecute Cimon on a charge of bribery, after the latter's Thasian campaign; but as the accusation could hardly have been meant seriously Pericles was perhaps put forward only as a lay-figure.

Pericles now seemed to have made up his mind that war with Sparta, the head of that ' The date can hardly be fixed; probably it was after 440.

But he could hardly be said seriously to have oppressed the subject cities, and technically all the League money was spent on League business, for Athena, to whom the chief monuments in Athens were reared, was the patron goddess of the League.

So complete is the watershed that no streams pass through these ranges, and there is hardly any communication in this direction between the interior of Asia Minor and the coast.

Hardly a noble house of Spain or Italy was not represented in the fleet, and the princes headed the boarders.