Synonyms for hard-bitten
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : hahrd-bit-n |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɑrdˈbɪt n |
Top 10 synonyms for hard-bitten Other synonyms for the word hard-bitten
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
- 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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