"hardly" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- She knew she would have to tell him soon that he hardly merited her attention at all, but she did not plan to do that tonight.
- To an unschooled or cursory observer, they might easily have been mistaken for fuel tanks or napalm canisters, and such objects hardly merit a second look.
- Their fielding was shoddy, the bowling mostly thoughtless and Andrew Strauss's captaincy hardly merited any gongs.
- Being stationary or slow-moving targets, they hardly merit the attention of the snipers with their Mausers and telescopic sights, who concentrate mainly on killing the officers.
- But these points hardly merit the Dole broadside.
- Ripken was named an American League All-Star as an honor for career achievement, his statistics this season hardly meriting his inclusion on the team.
- It is as though the new groups hardly merit any notice.
- Ten years ago business news hardly merited a two-minute segment on television; today, the airwaves are filled with shows devoted wholly to business, and to business people.
- Yet some of the dishes, especially the salads, offered variations that seemed so subtle they hardly merited separate recipes.
- Frank and April's plans would hardly merit a raised eyebrow; if anything, they'd seem somewhat timid, even bourgeois, in their Old World aspirations.
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