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hard boiled

adjective as in pragmatic

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They are poached instead of hard-boiled, boasting anti-heroes with nihilistic worldviews who are nevertheless vulnerable.

On a lighter note, your character in the film has an interesting eating habit: he eats two hard-boiled eggs a day.

Because it lacks the stylish voice of a hard-boiled detective noir, it sometimes feels coldly industrious.

Since this fall, though, as the governing got tough, the president has been avoiding fiction for some hard-boiled history.

I had her on my Food Network show, Cooking Live, twice (the first time to make those famous non-boiled hard-boiled eggs).

When growing flower plants from seeds, start them in halves of shells from hard-boiled eggs.

Add four hard-boiled yolks of eggs, and pour gravy all over, cover with puff paste, and bake for one hour and a quarter.

I'll bet you anything that Uncle Sim himself couldn't go to Athens tomorrow and order a cup of coffee and a hard-boiled egg!

He climbed half way, and then ate lunch, which consisted of nine hard boiled eggs.

Creamed hard-boiled eggs on toast; coffee; fried hominy and syrup.

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On this page you'll find 64 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hard-boiled, such as: hard-nosed, callous, firm, hard as nails, hard-line, and hard-shelled.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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