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hard-bitten
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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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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