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Meanings of hardscrabble in English

Hardscrabble.

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Usage of hardscrabble in English
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Ten years ago, Oatland Avenue had been a hardscrabble patch of throwaway property.
Two for the dough
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Saakashvili has been touring factories and hardscrabble villages talking of investment and stability.
Reuters
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He selected a section of a hardscrabble unfavourable hillside, and planted.
Stonewielder
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The hardscrabble life here in the wilderness had aged him brutally.
Assail
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Likewise, British country singers seem to lack the hardscrabble upbringing common to American artists.
Reuters
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His family were hardscrabble farmers and Perry grew up tough.
The Guardian
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Mills lived in a one-industry county in the hardscrabble mountains of western North Carolina.
American-made: the enduring legacy of the wpa : when fdr put the...
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My father's hardscrabble life also left him with a burning desire to get rich.
Funny in Farsi
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Arrakis City was a hardscrabble frontier town with weathered homes and dusty, unpaved streets.
Mentats of Dune
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Arrakis remained a hardscrabble world with rugged inhabitants who had learned how to survive there.
Navigators of Dune
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Somehow the hardscrabble look gave her an earthy appeal.
Dear John
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It proved to me that e-publishing is going to be digging in hardscrabble for awhile.
Wired
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Or would she finally have accepted her hardscrabble existence?
The Fame Game
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But he had a hard core, honed playing hardscrabble club cricket in Guyana's Port Mourant.
The Guardian
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But the lush greenery of this Basra province district has now turned into a hardscrabble surface.
Reuters
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The west side of town, where the hardscrabble whites and poor Hispanics lived, was another story.
Rain gods
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