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hardship
noun as in personal burden
Strongest matches
adversity, calamity, catastrophe, danger, difficulty, disaster, discomfort, fatigue, grief, hazard, injury, misery, misfortune, oppression, peril, persecution, sorrow, suffering, torment, trouble, worry
Strong matches
accident, affliction, asperity, austerity, case, curse, destitution, distress, drudgery, grievance, labor, mischance, need, privation, rigor, toil, travail, trial, tribulation, vicissitude, want
Weak matches
hard knocks, Herculean task, rainy day, rotten luck, tough break, tough luck, uphill battle
Example Sentences
Gzim says he is speaking out to warn others, as the UK government relaunches a social media campaign aimed at warning Albanians who enter illegally of possible hardships in the UK.
But what those adult critics failed to see was that, no matter how much a parent tries to shield their kid from the world’s hardships, they will inevitably experience them anyway.
That should give the rest of us non-superpowered folk a glimmer of hope that we can get through our hardships too.
It seems the religious leaders either don’t realize they are being played or somehow think they stand to benefit from the hardship and loss of freedoms that will ensue if the technocrats succeed.
Each hardship and adventure that Lili faces bleeds into the next, with moments of respite and, occasionally, better food.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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