Because this stick, though originally a very handsome one has been so knocked about that I can hardly imagine a town practitioner carrying it.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
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Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
— with force : VIGOROUSLY
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Macmillan
— used for saying that something is almost not true or almost does not happen at all
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Usage
16 uses of ‘hardly’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle