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hard bitten
adjective as in remorseless
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- avaricious
- barbarous
- bloody
- callous
- cruel
- fierce
- forbidding
- greedy
- grim
- hard
- hard-bitten
- hard-hearted
- hardened
- harsh
- impenitent
- implacable
- inexorable
- inhuman
- inhumane
- insensitive
- intolerant
- merciless
- murderous
- obdurate
- pitiless
- relentless
- rigorous
- ruthless
- sanguinary
- savage
- shameless
- sour
- tough
- tyrannical
- uncompassionate
- uncontrite
- unforgiving
- unmerciful
- unregenerate
- unrelenting
- unremitting
- unrepenting
- unyielding
- vindictive
adjective as in tough
adjective as in tough
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adjective as in callous
adjective as in hard-bitten
adjective as in hardened
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Example Sentences
His gift for salty language impressed even the most hard-bitten grunts.
Hard-bitten conservatives might be relieved, then, to find their misgivings about the president reflected by the left as well.
Even the most hard-bitten Chicagoans have to see very good times on the horizon.
But even the most hard-bitten Chicagoans have to see very good times on the horizon.
Along the rail, hard-bitten as the clippers men were, oaths broke out, and mutterings.
The police sergeant was a hard bitten looking customer, typical of his line in life.
I remember the long red wall of Hampton Court as the one warm feature of the hard-bitten landscape.
Into most eyes he looked down, for when he stood in his socks he was six feet two inches of hard-bitten sinew and man-flesh.
He had been the hard-bitten captain of a hard-bitten company, fighting Moros in the jungles of Mindanao.
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On this page you'll find 33 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hard-bitten, such as: adamantine, callous, compact, compacted, compressed, and concentrated.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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