hardly
Example Sentences
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I don't think 11 events qualifies as 'hardly ever playing'.
From BBC • Sep. 28, 2015
And by 'untold' we mean 'hardly worth mentioning'.
From The Guardian • Apr. 6, 2010
Quiet by nature, unobtrusive by preference, Robert Fechner had 'hardly taken hold at CCC before he got into a first-class stink.
From Time Magazine Archive
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‘Well, then,’ says the warden, looking at his watch, ‘hardly worth going back to your cell then, is it?’
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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I’m a ‘bad, idle boy,’ it seems, and ‘incorrigibly slothful,’ and ‘hardly fit for the school,’ and ‘I must be put down to a lower form if I don’t make more effort’—oh!
From St. Winifred's, or The World of School by Earnshaw, H. C. (Harold C.)