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hard-bitten

ADJECTIVE
  1. tough and callous by virtue of experience

How To Use hard-bitten In A Sentence

  • Picture it to yourself -- a hard-bitten, joy-loving sea-cuny, irresponsible, unaware ever of past or future, wining and dining with kings, the accepted lover of a princess, and with brains like Hamel's and Yunsan's to do all planning and executing for me. Chapter 15
  • This particular murder case was so horrific that it shocked even the most hard-bitten of New York police officers.
  • Although it ditches the politically-charged setting - instead we are given the softer side of these hard-bitten cons - it is lighter and more amusing.
  • And since its hard-bitten goaltender turned in three shutouts in the first round, the team's fans have turned rabid in the heat.
  • This hard-bitten Philadelphia holster maker operates a classic one-man-shop specializing in extremely well-made and practically designed carry rigs.
  • The rumour-mongers have portrayed me as a hard-bitten political adventuress devoid of all human feeling.
  • Although it ditches the politically-charged setting - instead we are given the softer side of these hard-bitten cons - it is lighter and more amusing.
  • Today, it wears international renown with hard-bitten modesty. Times, Sunday Times
  • This volume of gonzo musings completes the “accidental trilogy” begun in Blood Orchid and continued in Blues for Cannibals, offering more scorched-earth prophesying by the hard-bitten Bowden, a journalistic iconoclast in the tradition of Hunter S. Thompson, Edward Abbey, and James Agee. Cover to Cover
  • Especially when the greying crims could only be called hard-bitten if they'd managed to apply their denture fixative that morning.
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