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tough

noun as in person who is rowdy, mean

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Our last game we were coming off Lewis & Clark, and that was a tough game.

This is a way for animals to break down tough plant material like grass.

He spent the entire ride explaining how he was tough on the gloves while he skied but rewaterproofed them as often as once a week during the season.

If not, gathering about 14,000 signatures in 120 days will be very tough.

I learned some very tough lessons during some very tough times.

His flesh is sagging a bit, but he is still trim and looks lean, sinewy and tough.

“You ask me my motivation,” Marvin says, moving back into his tough guy persona again.

After a bunch of tough talk, this round of the hacker-on-hacker fight nevered materialized.

Although tough environmental controls were put in place in 2000, enforcement has been haphazard.

It was also an occasion for voluptuary displays of tough-mindedness.

But this paper was a very tough, fibrous substance, and would resist quite a heavy blow as well as keep out the cold.

"Tough—but most of us have been there, one time or another," Goodell observed sympathetically; and with that the subject rested.

You know that I come of tough fiber—of that old Creole race of Pontelliers that dry up and finally blow away.

Another tough-looking man ran out of the building and jumped into the red car.

But it was tough on Clip to run into a relative and find him passing smoke-signals along for that prince of rascals, Dangerfield.

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On this page you'll find 342 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tough, such as: hard, healthy, resilient, solid, stiff, and tenacious.

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

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