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"hardly not" is not correct or usable in written English.
In spoken English one might use the phrase to denote a strong disagreement, but it should not be used in written English. Example: John: I think Natalie is wrong about the topic. Jack: Hardly not! Natalie is the expert on this subject.
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Hardly; not with three young kids and a tempestuous marriage.
"There ain't no lead singers hardly, not ones with any ounce of lead singerism," he says.
Hardly, not least because they're originally from Kendal, home of Mint Cake and British Sea Power, another eccentrically English group.
It's more that one can hardly not intuit the sheer weight of human presence, prose content and musical transmission that must subsist in the original away beyond our linguistic reach.
They could hardly not be, such is the fervour for this tournament, but awareness of past pitfalls is a key counter-point to the former centre Craig Innes's comment that "if the All Blacks play the best they can play, and everyone else does the same, then the All Blacks win".
He could hardly not - this was the third race in succession in which he has hit trouble, and he had been warned by team boss Christian Horner before the weekend that he needed a clean race.
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Avoid nonstandard (i.e., ungrammatical) forms such as "ain't", "can't hardly", "can't seem to", "irregardless", and "anyways".
The fact that some people might misinterpret such information hardly justifies not disclosing it.
She grew sick; she and Freeman told hardly anyone, not even Brooks.
Hardly anybody, not even Caroline, thought he had done the right thing.
Prince Andrew probably says, "I'm hardly Establishment – not now I'm down to fifth in line to the throne".
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