hardscrabble
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(satellite adjective) of a bare living gained by great labor; "the sharecropper's hardscrabble life"; "a marginal existence" |
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Synonyms: marginal |
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(satellite adjective) yielding little by great labor; "a hardscrabble farm"; "poor soil" |
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Synonyms: poor |
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