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adj. Earning a bare subsistence, as on the land; marginal: the sharecropper's hardscrabble life.

n. Barren or marginal farmland.

adj. Of or pertaining to land that takes a lot of work in order to farm and even then is not very productive.

adj. barely satisfying a lower standard

"I didn't really use the word hardscrabble, though."

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