hard-bitten

Example Sentences

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The cabbie, a hard-bitten postcommunist cynic, asks her if she’s visiting the archives “for work or fun.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

Old sceptics, hard-bitten by a quarter of a century of nothingness, were beginning to turn.

From BBC • Jan. 31, 2025

Dip into the dad-canon iconography of Bill Pronzini’s Nameless Detective series, of which more than 40 hard-bitten installments have been released since the early 1970s?

From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2024

Cleo is “such an Artful Dodger character — pretty hard-bitten, pretty cynical, not sentimental,” Jonas Pate says.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2023

Later there came a request from the young couple, a request written and subscribed to by a hard-bitten bachelor, Ross Milton.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt