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The phrase "hardly appropriate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express that something is not suitable or fitting in a certain situation. Example: The CEO's casual attire was hardly appropriate for the formal company event.
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Any references to priorities seem hardly appropriate.
Lengthy tender processes are hardly appropriate when lives are on the line.
It is hardly appropriate, of course, for organizers of a festival to preach sobriety.
Both of them come across as self-conscious elocution students, which is hardly appropriate for Higgins.
It is hardly appropriate to speak of anyone's "stealing" doctors from anyone else.
The city offered a park in Queens, hardly appropriate when the convention is in Manhattan.
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This hardly seems appropriate on a desert island.
Giving the automakers more for abusing their unique standing hardly seems appropriate.
That was hardly an appropriate thing to tell a 13-year-old boy.
Doubling a freely bid game is hardly ever appropriate, but it was here.
This conception of Americana hardly seemed appropriate for iPad-toting twenty- and thirtysomething city-dwellers.
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