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Definition of hardscrabble
1a : being or relating to a place of barren or barely arable soil a hardscrabble farm hardscrabble prairiesb : getting a meager living from poor soil a hardscrabble farmer
2 : marked by poverty a hardscrabble cotton town a hardscrabble childhood
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Examples of hardscrabble in a Sentence
He lived a hardscrabble life.
it was hard to eke out even a bare existence on the hardscrabble lands
Recent Examples of hardscrabble from the Web
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But until now the story of Vance’s hardscrabble childhood in Appalachia and later success at Yale Law School and Silicon Valley had never made it to the top spot.
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Wonjo Tofu House is a modest little Korean restaurant in a rather hardscrabble strip mall on Fireweed Lane.
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Kellyanne Conway is one of the few people in Trump’s circle who actually have something like a hardscrabble background.
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THEN: Around 1895, hardscrabble Russian immigrant Sam Zemurray got an idea.
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But the film's standout may be Squires, a previously unknown 28-year-old who in interviews has spoken about her own hardscrabble upbringing.
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Ann Mah, under the spell of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels, went to the Italian port city to track down the hardscrabble neighborhood where Ferrante’s characters Lenù and Lila grew up.
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Oroville became another hardscrabble Gold Rush town.
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Raised by a single mother in a hardscrabble Paris suburb, Froger said affluent and cosmopolitan city-dwellers have little idea of the problems facing ordinary French citizens.
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First Known Use of hardscrabble
1879
HARDSCRABBLE Defined for English Language Learners
hardscrabble
playDefinition of hardscrabble for English Language Learners
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: having poor soil
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: having harsh and difficult conditions because of poverty
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