One of the hard-faced officers explains that the security here is provided mostly by off-duty cops and correctional officers.
Inside the Dead Girl's Wild Nightclub|Jeff Deeney|July 25, 2009|DAILY BEAST
The silent, hard-faced Hans leant forward and stared up the darkling water, his hand behind his ear.
Lysbeth|H. Rider Haggard
Mrs Brandon smiled, and then rose again, as the hard-faced footman opened the door.
By Birth a Lady|George Manville Fenn
Thus spoke a hard-faced woman of some thirty odd, by her looks.
The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari|James S. De Benneville
They were a hard-faced lot; he had not picked them for tenderness.
Way of the Lawless|Max Brand
A hard-faced, slovenly old woman was sitting near a stove, and looked at him in surprise as he entered.
Harvard Stories|Waldron Kintzing Post
hard-faced
adjective
Northern Englishdialectcheeky
Words nearby hard-faced
hardening of arteries, hardening of the arteries, harden off, harden one's heart, harden up, hard-faced, hard-favored, hard-featured, hard feeling, hard feelings, hard fern