Meanings of hardly successful in English

But he was hardly successful.

Probably Kant is the last great scholar who will ever try to hold that distinction firm, and he is hardly successful.

As he told himself that it must be so, he endeavoured to analyse the causes of this decision, but was hardly successful.

Mrs. Proudie did her best to smirk at each and every one as they made their adieux, but she was hardly successful.

The Jamaica Government Railway is admirably designed if regarded as a scenic railway, but is hardly successful if considered as a commercial undertaking.