Search Result for "hardscrabble": 
Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. barely satisfying a lower standard;
- Example: "the sharecropper's hardscrabble life"



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

hardscrabble
    adj 1: barely satisfying a lower standard; "the sharecropper's
           hardscrabble life"