Subject to difficulty in accomplishing or making progress.(adjective)
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Use "hardpressed" in a sentence
"For me, it meant that I just stopped reading outside of the required stuff and even now I am hardpressed to expand into reading something by a ‘classic’ author or in an unfamiliar genre."
"The town itself was fairly small and we were hardpressed to find a place to eat that night, but ate at the Town Hall, a higher end and very good restaurant."
"It's present in music but unless someone actually appreciates music they'd be hardpressed to note a few notes that have reappeared in songs as often as The Hero's Journey does in visual medium."