"hardly accept" can be used in written English.
It is a valid phrase that indicates reluctance or hesitation in accepting something. Example: "I hardly accept the fact that I have to work on weekends." In this sentence, the speaker is expressing their reluctance or hesitation in accepting the fact that they have to work on weekends.
One would hardly accept an Op-Ed article on stem cell research from a military historian.
Moreover, a politician who once compared himself to Napoleon can hardly accept words like "defeat" or a luxury retirement in his villa in Arcore.
After rejecting the high-risk option of leading the EU "out" campaign, Boris would hardly accept what "a friend" wittily describes as "literally a hospital pass".
25 Apart from the fact that the primary election may be more crucial than the general election in certain parts of Texas, 26 we can hardly accept as reasonable an alternative that requires candidates and voters to abandon their party affiliations in order to avoid the burdens of the filing fees imposed by state law.
In 1945, when his party was voted out of office, Winston Churchill refused the honour when it was first offered to him, explaining in private, "I can hardly accept the Order of the Garter from the king after the people have given me the Order of the Boot".
But at the same time, we can hardly accept Mill's descriptions at face value, either.
Guyton hardly accepts every result of his process.
The latter shortcoming may even lead to ambiguity, so that these techniques are hardly accepted for industrial quality inspection.
Mr. Springsteen spit them out like a bitter tonic, resigned but hardly accepting; he struck a similar chord in the following tune, "Seeds," before the dizzying upswing of "Prove It All Night".
However, the above mechanism was hardly accepted in the case of the HOPG substrate because of the lack of assistance from TIP in the observed energy range.
The direct observation of the sinus membrane showed that it is stretchable and can be easily elevated in eight cases where the membrane morphology was classified as thick (group B), whereas in the other four cases (group A), the membrane was thin and hardly accepted the lifting procedure (Tables 1 and 2).
