Word info Synonyms

hardscrabble

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1. hardscrabble - Adjective

2. hardscrabble - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

barely satisfying a lower standard

Source: WordNet

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Examples

the sharecropper's hardscrabble life Source: Internet

Hartnett’s Kip and his sister, Josephine (the superb Margarita Levieva), are inheritors of their dad’s opioid-dealing franchise in their unnamed, gray-tinted, hardscrabble Ohio town. Source: Internet

And though cotton is Howard County’s dominant cash crop, oil is king in this hardscrabble part of West Texas. Source: Internet

Consider Peter Geye's (Unbridled Books), a beautifully crafted tale of hardscrabble settlers on the North Shore of Lake Superior at the beginning of the 20th century. Source: Internet

Much of my work is set in the landscape of my childhood - remote and hardscrabble upstate New York, in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains. Source: Internet

A young, hardscrabble, and forgotten girl is haunted. Source: Internet

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