hardscrabble
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əl adjective
providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort; demanding or unrewarding: the hardscrabble existence of mountainside farmers.
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| —n | |
| 1. | (modifier) (of a place) difficult to make a living in; barren |
| 2. | great effort made in the face of difficulties |
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Hardscrabble
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Example sentences
He was raised, with four siblings, on a hardscrabble farm.
Many of them live a hardscrabble existence in places that are hot, wet, often disease-ridden and sometimes dangerous.
Nearly every story about him has alluded to his hardscrabble origins.
It is remarkable what the residents have created from the hardscrabble plain.
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