It could hardly hurt more than what he'd already swallowed.

In any case, at this point it could hardly hurt.

I began to feel thousands of tiny pinpricks all over my body, but they hardly hurt.

The devastating reviews, in any case, have hardly hurt the book at the cash registers.

Standing up to Washington would hardly hurt that kind of strong image.

But those problems hardly hurt it in the marketplace.

My hands are not hurting hardly at all any more.

And it hardly hurt that both films had made money.

He knew the strikes annoyed the creature, though they could hardly hurt it.