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hardscrabble

Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2010 5:28 pm
by Klimt
providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort; demanding or unrewarding.


the hardscrabble existence of mountainside farmers.

the sharecropper's hardscrabble life.

Its cost was to be seventy thousand dollars, which was an enormous sum in those hardscrabble days.

Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2010 6:11 pm
by Slava
An excellent "dust-bowl" era word.