toughie
Example Sentences
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It’s a toughie because you feel like there’s an answer you’re supposed to give and then there’s an answer you wanna give.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025
Quiz five out of five and this one is a toughie.
From BBC • Dec. 25, 2024
When asked about Judy Garland, he’d say, “I thought she was going to be a toughie, but she wasn’t.”
From The New Yorker • Jul. 11, 2018
Carnwath, supposedly a boardroom toughie, was being too kind to her former colleagues.
From The Guardian • Jan. 30, 2013
“I knew you were an old toughie the minute I saw you.”
From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis
