HARDLY

Definitions

1. 1. In a hard or difficult manner; with difficulty. Recovering hardly what he lost before. Dryden.
2. 2. Unwillingly; grudgingly. The House of Peers gave so hardly theiMilton.
3. 3. Scarcely; barely; not guite; not wholly. Hardly shall you one so bad, but he desires the credit of being thought good. South.
4. 4. Severely; harshly; roughly. He has in many things been hardly used. Swift.
5. 5. Confidently; hardily. [Obs.] Holland.
6. 6. Certainly; surely; indeed. [Obs.] Chaucer.