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hardscrabble

adjective

hard·​scrab·​ble ˈhärd-ˌskra-bəl How to pronounce hardscrabble (audio)
1
a
: being or relating to a place of barren or barely arable soil
a hardscrabble farm
hardscrabble prairies
b
: getting a meager living from poor soil
a hardscrabble farmer
2
: marked by poverty
a hardscrabble cotton town
a hardscrabble childhood

Example Sentences

He lived a hardscrabble life. it was hard to eke out even a bare existence on the hardscrabble lands
Recent Examples on the Web The city and its environs bear the legacy of that rugged, hardscrabble culture: Two country music stars of the mid–twentieth century, Buck Owens and Merle Haggard, were greatly influenced by their time in Bakersfield. Grace Segers, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2022 For the better part of the past decade, singer-songwriter Sarah Shook has made their name as the lead singer of the hardscrabble country-rock outfit Sarah Shook and the Disarmers. Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 13 July 2022 Rice, a former 21st Century Fox executive who excelled in the hardscrabble culture of Rupert Murdoch’s entertainment empire, was speculated as a possible successor to Chapek during a rocky period for the company. Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2022 Cox, a public school teacher, stays in character when describing hardscrabble female voters at the Preble County Fair. Laura A. Bischoff, The Enquirer, 20 May 2022 Once a subsistence farm for its hardscrabble owners, the nearly three-acre property the couple bought included an 1840s cottage, a one-room cabin of indeterminate age and the two-story villa, built by white-glove buyers in 1911. Sarah Medford, WSJ, 28 July 2022 In 1969, Jay left his post as a sculpture professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and bought the hardscrabble property, joining the nascent back-to-the-land movement brewing among his peers. Sunset Magazine, 15 June 2022 In a hardscrabble neighborhood of Tunis, near a strip of beach where migrant boats depart, a smuggling kingpin, who connects migrants with skippers, outlines his brutal calculations in human lives. David Mckenzie, CNN, 22 July 2022 Born William Claude Dukenfield in Philadelphia, Fields survived a hardscrabble childhood to become a world-famous juggler, a vaudeville headliner and a Broadway star. cleveland, 10 June 2022 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1879, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Time Traveler
The first known use of hardscrabble was in 1879

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