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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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"Hardly" Quotes from Famous Books

... conservative tendencies, hastened to the relief of the government. He went to Dublin to support the Scotch preacher in his attack on the Mass and the Blessed Eucharist, but if we are to believe his own story his stay in Dublin was hardly less agreeable than was the welcome that awaited him on his return to Meath. His friends assured him that the country was up in arms against him. A lady, whose child he had baptised and named after himself, sought to change ...

— History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance • Rev. James MacCaffrey

... of Wycherley it can hardly be necessary for us to say more. His fame as a writer rests wholly on his comedies, and chiefly on the last two. Even as a comic writer, he was neither of the best school, nor highest in his school. He was in ...

— Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... Walter could hardly conceal his delight at having put the ruffian upon a false trail, but he was ready for the ...

— The Boy Chums in the Forest - or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades • Wilmer M. Ely

... wind shaking the hut; long, ragged, twisted wind-cloud in the middle heights. A watery moon shining through a filmy cirrostratus—the outlook wonderfully desolate with its ghostly illumination and patchy clouds of flying snow drift. It would be hardly possible for a tearing, raging wind to make itself more visible. At Wind Vane Hill the anemometer has registered 68 miles between 9 and 10 A.M.—a record. The gusts at the hut frequently exceed 70 m.p.h.—luckily the temperature is up to 5 deg., so that ...

— Scott's Last Expedition Volume I • Captain R. F. Scott

... the governing of their needfull affairs which they went out about; for when they come to the place where their occasions lay; they find the person either long before gone abroad, or so imploied with his own business, that he can hardly a quarter do that he ought ...

— The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and The Confession of the New-married Couple (1682) • A. Marsh

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