The word "hardscrabble" refers to a difficult and challenging way of life, often involving hard work, struggle, and limited resources, typically in poor or harsh conditions. Full definition
Loving, a real - life story about an inter-racial marriage in hardscrabble Virginia in the Fifties, is Nichols's finest film yet. (standard.co.uk)
A gaping chasm separates the actual hardscrabble lives of these full - time residents from the discount - Disney paradise the exterior design strains to advertise. (avclub.com)
Such ostensible self - deprecation is meant to lament the rugged, barren and often woefully untraversable terrain of the Greek countryside, but the narrative also slyly points to Greek pride in hardscrabble existence — on some level Greeks wouldn't have it any other way finding core pleasures in life's simple offerings such as the enjoyment of food, family, earth and sea. (treehugger.com)