hard-featuredadj.

1638 R. Younge Drunkard's Char. 369 A swarthy and hard featured visage, loves not the company of cleare beauties.

1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. xlix. 133 A tall raw-boned man, with a hard featured countenance.

1823 J. F. Cooper Pilot I. iii. 25 We ought to be getting the schooner out of this hard-featured landscape.

1874 J. L. Motley Life John of Barneveld II. xxiii. 424 A hard-featured but commanding and not uncomely woman.

1904 Nineteenth Cent. July 132 Perhaps this hard-featured offspring of genius [sc. the Ballad of Reading Gaol]..ought not, appropriately, to keep company with the pretty effeminate weaklings of which..my collection consists.

1942 ‘M. Fitt’ Requiem for Robert iii. 76 The concierge who peered out at him through her peep-hole was one of the hard-featured type.

2008 Professional Engin. Feb. 20 Afghanistan is a landscape of hard-featured beauty, where mountains tower over rugged plains.

2009 New Yorker 10 Aug. 86/3 Tough, hard-featured types like Nina, whose fortunes we follow.

1839 G. Dennis Summer in Andalucia II. xii. 297 The Highland lassie, or Swiss peasant-girl, pursuing a similar occupation, displays all the coarseness, clumsiness, and hard-featuredness of the boor.

1856 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters IV. 341 That absence of perception of the Beautiful, which introduced a general hardfeaturedness of figure into all German and Flemish early art.