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hardly
adverb
Only a very short time before
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ˈhɑːdli
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adverb
Only a very short time before
“We hardly knew them”
adverb
Almost not
“He hardly ever goes fishing”
adverb
Slowly and with difficulty
“Prejudices die hard”
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We hardly knew them
Had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open
{'source': 'W.B.Yeats', 'text': 'would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave'}
He hardly ever goes fishing
He was scarce sixteen years old
They scarcely ever used the emergency generator
I can hardly hear what she is saying
She barely seemed to notice him
Prejudices die hard
He was so dizzy he could hardly stand up straight
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