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
He is hard-bitten by reality in these games, after all.
From BBC • Dec. 14, 2024
Portis’s final novel, “Gringos,” which appeared in 1991, is a neo-noir that consolidates all the anxiety, comedy and magic of his previous work into the travails of a hard-bitten American expatriate named Jimmy Burns.
From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2023
Taylor’s Inez, possessed of a hard-bitten skill for self-preservation, stays one step ahead, constantly moving forward, a soft shred of hope her only cold comfort.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
