[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

hardly \hard"ly\ haumrd"ly^, adv. as. heardlice. see
   hard.
   1913 webster
   1. in a hard or difficult manner; with difficulty.
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            recovering hardly what he lost before. --dryden.
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   2. unwillingly; grudgingly.
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            the house of peers gave so hardly their consent.
                                                  --milton.
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   3. scarcely; barely; not quite; not wholly.
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            hardly shall you find any one so bad, but he desires
            the credit of being thought good.     --south.
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   4. severely; harshly; roughly.
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            he has in many things been hardly used. --swift.
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   5. confidently; hardily. obs. --holland.
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   6. certainly; surely; indeed. obs. --chaucer.
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see also:
hard 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

hardly
     adv 1: by a small margin; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we
            hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit"; "had
            scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open";
            "would have scarce arrived before she would have found
            some excuse to leave"- w.b.yeats syn: barely, just,
             scarcely, scarce
     2: almost not; "he hardly ever goes fishing"; "he was hardly
        more than sixteen years old"; "they scarcely ever used the
        emergency generator" syn: scarcely
see also:
barely just scarcely scarce 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

107 moby thesaurus words for "hardly":
   a bit, a little, abnormally, arduously, at infrequent intervals,
   badly, barely, bitterly, burdensomely, by a hair, by an ace,
   by no means, closely, difficultly, energetically, ever so little,
   exiguously, faintly, feebly, fiercely, firmly, forcefully,
   forcibly, frenziedly, furiously, hardly ever, harshly, imperfectly,
   impliably, inappreciably, inconsequentially, incredibly,
   inexorably, inflexibly, infrequently, insignificantly,
   ironhandedly, just, just a bit, keenly, laboriously, lightly,
   little, madly, meagerly, might and main, mightily, minimally,
   minutely, narrowly, nearly, negligibly, not hardly, not often,
   not quite, obdurately, onerously, only, only just, painfully,
   powerfully, rancorously, rarely, relentlessly, rigidly, rigorously,
   roughly, scantily, scarce, scarcely, scarcely ever, seldom,
   seldom if ever, severely, slightly, solid, solidly, sorely,
   sparsely, stiffly, stormily, strenuously, strongly, tant soit peu,
   the hard way, toilsomely, triflingly, turbulently, unbendingly,
   uncommonly, uncompromisingly, uncustomarily, unexpectedly,
   unfrequently, unnaturally, unoften, unordinarily, unrelentingly,
   unusually, unyieldingly, very seldom, vigorously, violently,
   weakly, wildly, with difficulty, with much ado

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