'hardly decided' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe a situation where someone has made a choice that was difficult or not without hesitation. For example: After much thought and consideration, I had hardly decided which college to attend.
Never mind that I have hardly decided whether a writer is what I really want to be, much less whether I'm ready to retire from the profession.
In the interviews, party leaders described the Democratic nomination battle as hardly decided, even after Mr. Kerry decisively defeated Dr. Dean here and in Iowa.
Also, while it's hardly decided science, one review of available medical literature found that nicotine as a single element may be related to an increased risk of cardiovascular, respiratory, and gastrointestinal disorders, and have a negative impact on several bodily systems.
The Swiss, for instance, can hardly decide which side of bed to get out of in the mornings, let alone what color stripe is permissible on the seams of their ski pants, without putting such urgent questions to the popular vote.
In large-scale and complex VANETs, a vehicle can hardly acquire precise details of multi-hop distanced vehicles and can hardly decide which CH to choose among multi-hop neighbors.
Wayne biographer Paul Nelson opines that Americans of the day could "hardly decide after the battle whether to admire Wayne for his brave and impetuous character or to condemn him as a foolhardy adventurer".
"If you graduated from college, and you could be a social worker or an investment banker, the fact that you have $20,000 in student debt is hardly a deciding factor," she says.
According to Marsina, it "can hardly be unambiguously decided whether Pribina was prince of a greater tribe or of two or three smaller joined tribes".
I'd get to immerse myself in specific cultures and periods of times and places that I would hardly have ever decided to visit if I wasn't in theater.
It's hardly surprising that Walt Disney decided to get into wild animals in a big way.
In contrast to last year, when there was one job opening for a reserve outfielder, hardly anything has been decided or defined.
