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Examples of hardly
hardly
You can hardly blame the rabbit for developing a severe case of sibling rivalry.
From the dailyherald.com
He was also one of his team's top rushers and hardly ever came off of the field.
From the stltoday.com
The exclusion of some teams for special games is hardly a new concept in sports.
From the usatoday.com
Ackley, 23, is a confident player who was hardly overwhelmed by spring pitching.
From the thenewstribune.com
Hardly anybody over 35 did especially well, as Tom Verducciexplained on Tuesday.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
A single-quarter decline in productivity is hardly a sign of fundamental change.
From the businessweek.com
It was hardly the type of encounter I was hoping for during my Asian sales tour.
From the businessweek.com
With Pixar heading out the door, Eisner hardly needs another big name defection.
From the businessweek.com
When it comes to China's Big Two, though, India's policies are hardly favorable.
From the businessweek.com
- Barely: only a very short time before; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit"; "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"; "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats
- Almost not; "he hardly ever goes fishing"; "he was hardly more than sixteen years old"; "they scarcely ever used the emergency generator"
- (hardness) the property of being rigid and resistant to pressure; not easily scratched; measured on Mohs scale
- (hardness) a quality of water that contains dissolved mineral salts that prevent soap from lathering; "the costs of reducing hardness depend on the relative amounts of calcium and magnesium compounds that are present"
- (hardness) unfeelingness: devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness
- (hardness) the quality of being difficult to do; "he assigned a series of problems of increasing hardness"; "the ruggedness of his exams caused half the class to fail"
- Hardness is the measure of how resistant solid matter is to various kinds of permanent shape change when a force is applied. ...
- Firmly, vigorously, with strength or exertion; Harshly, severely; With difficulty; Barely, only just, almost not; Not really
- (Hardness) Generally defined as resistance to indentation using a modified Janka hardness test, measured by the load required to embed a 11.28 mm (0.444-in.) ball to one-half its diameter. Values presented are the average of radial and tangential penetrations.
