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US
/ˈhɑɹdsˌkɹæbəɫ/
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ADJECTIVE
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barely satisfying a lower standard
the sharecropper's hardscrabble life
How To Use hardscrabble In A Sentence
- In a sense, Nuñez lives his life on a border, one foot planted in hardscrabble reality, the other in the aspirations of the upper middle class.
- Appearing in April, "American Letters: 1927-1947" Polity, 252 pages, $25 , a collection of the Pollock family correspondence, bears witness to the hardscrabble reality of the artist's upbringing amid boxcars and barren homesteads—the incubator of his creative vision. A Painter in Her Own Right
- But there have always been kids from hardscrabble backgrounds who show academic promise - by nature, by chance, or thanks to the special efforts of parents or other adults.
- To make their case, Messrs. Gerzema and D 'Antonio draw on social-science data and their own reporting, relating anecdotes from burned-out Detroit, hardscrabble Texas, rural New England and hip Los Angeles. Business
- Villaraigosa had a hardscrabble youth before turning into an activist for the teachers union and the ACLU.
- And at age 29, after seven hardscrabble years as a professional triathlete, Radkewich fully understands his PR responsibilities.
- Traveling through this rocky, hardscrabble land, one wonders how the inhabitants have sustained themselves for thousands of years and marvels at the fact that this part of Mexico is the place where corn was first cultivated from a wild grain that grew in the valleys between steep, cactus-strewn mountainsides. A yearly culinary ritual: La matanza
- And while today's Yorba Linda is a small town set amid the sprawl of Orange County, the humble home itself still speaks of the Nixon family's rural, hardscrabble life.
- McCarty asked her why she wanted to work in a hardscrabble neighborhood when she could earn far more in a comfortable suburb.
- In his prosperous days Daniel Anthony had built a satinet factory and a grist-mill at Hardscrabble and, although these were mortgaged heavily, he hoped to weather the financial storm and through them to build up again his fallen fortunes. The Life and Work of Susan B Anthony 01