Her romantic look and flowing skirts hide a sexuality whose existence she can hardly admit.

He could hardly even admit to himself that he had become exactly what everyone thought he was: a murderer.

At that point, de la Cosa could hardly admit to cowardice - or whatever his motive was.

He desires this alliance, though he'll hardly admit it openly.

Already, although she would hardly admit it, she was becoming uneasy about her partner.

I would hardly admit them to myself.

I could hardly admit I'd left her alone with a sergeant!

She hardly even admitted it to herself, but she had never been quite the same afterward.

Angry and, though he could hardly admit it even to himself, afraid.

She could hardly admit starting four days after her sixteenth birthday.