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Synonyms for hard-bitten


Grammar : Adj
Spell : hahrd-bit-n
Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɑrdˈbɪt n

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Définition of hard-bitten

Origin :
  • "tough, tough in a fight," literally "given to hard biting," 1715, originally of dogs, from hard + bitten, with the past participle used actively (cf. ill-spoken).
  • adj hard
Example sentences :
  • In height he was tall, and his figure was thin and loose-jointed, but stringy and hard-bitten.
  • Extract from : « Sir Nigel » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The hard-bitten tailor was easy to quarrel with at any time.
  • Extract from : « Our Square and the People in It » by Samuel Hopkins Adams
  • Soldiers appeared, hard-bitten, tough, professional Greek soldiers.
  • Extract from : « The Invaders » by William Fitzgerald Jenkins
  • There is no gainsaying that the Solomons are a hard-bitten bunch of islands.
  • Extract from : « South Sea Tales » by Jack London
  • He was a fighter, a dominant, hard-bitten woodsman, so the tale ran.
  • Extract from : « Big Timber » by Bertrand W. Sinclair
  • Trebell is hard-bitten, brainy, forty-five and very sure of himself.
  • Extract from : « Waste » by Granville Barker
  • He had been hard-bitten in his youth and trained in a hard, grim school.
  • Extract from : « Rung Ho! » by Talbot Mundy
  • I remember the long red wall of Hampton Court as the one warm feature of the hard-bitten landscape.
  • Extract from : « Witching Hill » by E. W. Hornung
  • They were a hard-bitten lot, burned to a brick red by the untempered sun of the Rockies.
  • Extract from : « The Highgrader » by William MacLeod Raine
  • Five dusty, hard-bitten men, all armed with rifles and revolvers, drew level with them.
  • Extract from : « The Highgrader » by William MacLeod Raine
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