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[ hahrd-bit-n ] / ˈhɑrdˈbɪt n / SEE SYNONYMS FOR hard-bitten ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivetough; stubborn. conditioned by battle or struggle: a hard-bitten army. grim or severe in judgment or attitude: a hard-bitten old teacher. hard-boiled (defs. 2, 3). Origin of hard-bittenFirst recorded in 1775–85 Words nearby hard-bittenhardback, hardbake, hardball, hard bargain, hard-bill, hard-bitten, hardboard, hardbody, hard-boil, hard-boiled, hardboot Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for hard-bittenHis gift for salty language impressed even the most hard-bitten grunts. The Story of the American Journalists Who Landed on D-Day|Timothy M. Gay|June 6, 2012|DAILY BEAST Hard-bitten conservatives might be relieved, then, to find their misgivings about the president reflected by the left as well. Obama's New Broken Promise|Samuel P. Jacobs|June 26, 2010|DAILY BEAST Even the most hard-bitten Chicagoans have to see very good times on the horizon. Who You Calling Second City?|Scott Turow|October 31, 2008|DAILY BEAST But even the most hard-bitten Chicagoans have to see very good times on the horizon. Who You Calling Second City?|Scott Turow|October 31, 2008|DAILY BEAST
There was a lean, hard-bitten colonel of the American liaison force in Greece. The Invaders|William Fitzgerald Jenkins There was the usual jostling crowd of hard-bitten Earth miners, and of the metal people who come to lose their loneliness. B-12's Moon Glow|Charles A. Stearns They were armed and he knew by their hard-bitten faces that it was another party of jumpers. Silver and Gold|Dane Coolidge There is no gainsaying that the Solomons are a hard-bitten bunch of islands. South Sea Tales|Jack London I was going to add women, but then I thought of how hard-bitten little Alice would look beside the dream creatures I had in mind. The Night of the Long Knives|Fritz Reuter Leiber
British Dictionary definitions for hard-bittenCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to hard-bittenadamantine, callous, compact, concentrated, dense, firm, hardened, hardy, impenetrable, indurate, inflexible, iron, packed, rigid, rocky, rugged, set, solid, stiff, stony |