Not at all

Usage examples of hardly.

Clotho picked a white Abyssinian, fussing over it tremendously, hardly willing to put the kitten down.

In any case, however, his accuracy in detail is hardly to be accepted without question, especially in his description of the Acropolis, where he has to try his prentice hand upon a material far too great for him.

Furthermore, the rights which the present statutes confer are subject to the Anti-Trust Acts, though it can be hardly said that the cases in which the Court has endeavored to draw the line between the rights claimable by patentees and the kind of monopolistic privileges which are forbidden by those acts exhibit entire consistency in their holdings.

Replying to James Warren on April 16, Adams could hardly control his anger.

On February 28, Adams could happily record in his diary that with smooth seas and a fine breeze the Boston had hardly any motion but forward.

In ability, experience, and resolve they were hardly a match for Adams, Franklin, and Jay, who, having started from scratch as diplomats, had come a long way in their time in Europe.

Jefferson let three months pass before sending Adams a rather stiff letter of apology and explanation, which, though well intentioned, hardly sufficed.

It was hardly what Adams had called for, but it was a start, providing funds to equip and man three frigates, the Constitution, the United States, and the Constellation, which had been built during the Washington administration but remained unequipped for service.

Like Adams, he claimed to be out of touch with politics, which was hardly so.

And nearly all of them seem to be aesthetically alive in a way that hardly any English writer since the Romantic Revival had been.

Hardly had they landed when the air service boys found themselves listening to sounds that seemed significant.

If he were going to betray us, I thought, it would hardly be here, in Akkadian territory.

The reasoning was sound, but Elizabeth could hardly put the idea of her father and brother on their way to Albany out of her head.

The tourist traffic in Algeria was hardly sufficient to support even the more accessible resorts along the coast.

Or the rain might fall, as it does in Algeria, in endless deluges, making a wet dark well of the street, but the class was hardly distracted.