hard-bitten
Example Sentences
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But this new music is neither a hard-bitten response to nor a rear-view departure from the worst years of his career.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026
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
Philip Marlowe, wearily played by Liam Neeson, is the hard-bitten private detective invented by Raymond Chandler in a series of stories and novels mostly published in the 1930s and ’40s.
From New York Times • Feb. 14, 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
