hard-core

Politicians who openly associated with Duke, or his hard-core associates, did so at their own risk.

“We were taught with Reefer Madness that it was a hard-core drug and we should veer away from it,” she says.

Eric Cantor lost because hard-core voters think his kind keep selling out to Obama.

Hard-core Moscow supporters like Oleg Tsarev, a local parliament member, were chased out of town with bounties their heads.

That was a great, hard-core, intensive training—not for the camera, but for how to get coverage.

The hard core of human egotism is hardly to be dislodged except rudely.

Small size, a permanent hard core of officers and few bases as necessary.

He mustered a hard core of courage in himself, but it required distinct effort.

When it's all slivered up thin and flat there'll be a leetle hard core left inside at the top, and you must cut it out careful.

To that hard core the caste idea is being visibly worn down.