hardship

koettelemus

vastoinkäyminen

vaikeus (countable or uncountable) difficulty Difficulty or trouble; hard times.

He has survived periods of financial hardship before.

(..) an adjustment of the income tax could easily produce the twenty millions without hardshipping any industrious person in the community (..)

Although we lost the election by the narrowest of margins, the people of Oregon heard a great deal about education, and particularly about how "look-say" reading instruction was hardshipping Oregon school children.