Meanings of hardly modern in English

Power, fulness, and beauty of coloring are hardly modern qualities.

Fantastic, barbaric scene-itseemed hardly modern.

One of these, perhaps hardly modern as far as mere years are concerned, is this same story of Bulwer, "The Haunted and the Haunters."

Hardly modern syntax, thought Artemis.

"She is the very personification of an old-fashioned English gentlewoman," he said once to Cedric; "but she is hardly modern enough in her ideas.