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tough

Definition for tough

noun as in person who is rowdy, mean

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Example Sentences

His flesh is sagging a bit, but he is still trim and looks lean, sinewy and tough.

“You ask me my motivation,” Marvin says, moving back into his tough guy persona again.

After a bunch of tough talk, this round of the hacker-on-hacker fight nevered materialized.

Although tough environmental controls were put in place in 2000, enforcement has been haphazard.

It was also an occasion for voluptuary displays of tough-mindedness.

But this paper was a very tough, fibrous substance, and would resist quite a heavy blow as well as keep out the cold.

"Tough—but most of us have been there, one time or another," Goodell observed sympathetically; and with that the subject rested.

You know that I come of tough fiber—of that old Creole race of Pontelliers that dry up and finally blow away.

Another tough-looking man ran out of the building and jumped into the red car.

But it was tough on Clip to run into a relative and find him passing smoke-signals along for that prince of rascals, Dangerfield.

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

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