Hardscrabble

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hardscrabble
       adj 1: yielding little by great labor; "a hardscrabble farm"; "poor
              soil" [syn: {poor}]
       2: of a bare living gained by great labor; "the sharecropper's
          hardscrabble life"; "a marginal existence" [syn: {marginal}]