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How to pronounce “hardscrabble”
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Pronunciation guide for hardscrabble
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of hardscrabble with real speech in context.
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- Real speech example
- Pretty Much Everything
They're just kind of hardscrabble people.
- Definition summary
- (Canada, US, of land) Requiring much work to farm, and ultimately not very productive.
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How to pronounce hardscrabble
Pretty Much Everything

They're just kind of hardscrabble people.
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A Deep Dive Into “hardscrabble”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- (Canada, US, of land) Requiring much work to farm, and ultimately not very productive.
- (Canada, US, by extension) Involving hard work and struggle.
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