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Discover LudwigThe phrase "hardly answer" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used when something is difficult to answer or when one is struggling to find an answer. Example: "The question was so complex, I could hardly answer it with confidence."
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They could hardly answer between giggles.
In response to Egypt, the Foreign Secretary could hardly answer "No comment".
For weeks after the terrorist attacks, secretaries at the New York State Office of Children and Family Services and press officers at the city's Administration for Children's Services could hardly answer the telephone without hearing from people who had read news of the "many," "hundreds," even "thousands" of orphans left in need of a home by the Sept. 11 disaster.
I hadn't spoken a word since the last stop, and my jaw was trembling so much I could hardly answer him.
"Even in the movie," Arabian says, "there's a scene where Cube is sitting there and the reporter asks, 'How does it feel to have all this money?' and Cube couldn't hardly answer!
Hardly answer calls.
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I asked her questions, but she hardly answered.
It hardly answers one person's objection to a restriction on his speech that another person, outside his control, may speak for him.
Although as incredible as his work has been, he was still just one Teach For America alum and that hardly answered my question of what alumni are doing on a mass scale.
Well, this was the solution that got us in the mess, so it's hardly the answer to cleaning up the mess.
Hardly the answer to the nation's obesity problems".
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