hardscrabble
Speech parts
1. hardscrabble - Adjective
2. hardscrabble - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
barely satisfying a lower standard
Source: WordNetSynonyms
Phrases with the word
Examples
the sharecropper's hardscrabble life
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.
And though cotton is Howard County’s dominant cash crop, oil is king in this hardscrabble part of West Texas.
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.
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.
A young, hardscrabble, and forgotten girl is haunted.