| 单词 | hard-natured |
| 释义 | > as lemmashard-natured hard-natured adj. ΚΠ 1569 N. Haward tr. Seneca Line of Liberalitie ii. vii. f. 43v Fabius verucosus was wont to lyken and compare, the benefit whiche any hard natured man [L. ab homine duro aspere] with paine dyd, to grauely or greety bread. 1657 J. Davies tr. V. de Voiture Lett. i. xlviii. 92 How hard-natur'd soever you may be, methinks you cannot do me a greater injury then that of not seeing you. 1767 Hist. Miss Pittborough I. xxv. 160 What bitter imprecations did I now utter against myself and the hard-natured Kitty. 1823 J. Clare Let. 11 Sept. (1985) 285 Sombody has sent me this morning a ‘Sunday Times’..with a hardnaturd puff in it. 1919 Survey 4 Jan. 433/1 Others have fallen among hard-natured people, and their helpless condition has been shamelessly exploited. 2011 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 24 July The gentle side of me comes from Mum. I'm not as hard-natured as Dad. < as lemmas |
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