Sentence examples for hardly as bad from inspiring English sources
That may be cold comfort to defense planners, but it's hardly as bad as some make it out to be.
Simply on the technical merits of the case, the intelligence community's performance, while far from superb, was hardly as bad as the senators assert.
Touching someone's cheek without his informed consent is hardly as bad as touching more sensitive areas of his body without his informed consent.
Perhaps Mr Purcell's legacy, though hardly stunning, is not quite as bad as it seemed when the Axe Man was axed.
The news was bad, but not as bad as it could have been and hardly as catastrophic as the statement's immediate cause.
Yet as bad as this election may seem, it is hardly original in its biliousness.
After all, in the film with that name the ugly arguably wasn't as bad as the bad, and the good was hardly perfect.
By the end, it's as bad as the sudden version, but the change is so gradual you hardly notice.
Actually, as bad a decision as the continued employment of Coulson was, it was hardly the most terrible thing that has happened in postwar British politics.
But, though global political conditions are hardly as good as they could be -- they never are -- there are plenty of grounds for thinking that they are not nearly as bad as so many are claiming.
