Hard-pressed

Synonyms for "hard-pressed" (13 found)

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Adjective(1 words)

Adjective(2 words)

Adjective(2 words)

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2 translations across 1 languages.

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8 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

"My feet aren't so dirty as yours!" "You'd be hard-pressed to call them clean, though!"

Source: tatoeba (10610735)

I would be hard-pressed to make up a sentence out of thin air.

Source: tatoeba (10757453)

Conversely, hard-pressed refugees talk of discrimination, exploitation by landlords and even greater abuses flowing from local resentment.

Source: tatoeba (11098710)

Although they are still available, I think we would be hard-pressed to find one on short notice.

Source: wiktionary

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.