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Anonymous Posted 4 years ago
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She's not very beautiful, but that's hardly the point.
She's not very beautiful, but that's hardly the point.
Question: Does hardly mean "certainly not"?
2 : certainly not
? The news is hardly surprising. = The news is hardly a surprise. [=the news is not surprising at all]
? This is hardly a new idea for a movie.
Merriam-Webster Learner's Dictionary | hardly
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anonymous Question: Does hardly mean "certainly not"? It's hard to say because I can't make sense of the sentence, but it would seem that you have indeed found the correct definition.
- anonymous Question: Does hardly mean "certainly not"?
- It's hard to say because I can't make sense of the sentence, but it would seem that you have indeed found the correct definition.
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anonymousQuestion: Does hardly mean "certainly not"?
It's hard to say because I can't make sense of the sentence, but it would seem that you have indeed found the correct definition.
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