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UK
/hˈɑːdɪhˌʊd/
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NOUN
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the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger
the proposal required great boldness
the plan required great hardiness of heart
How To Use hardihood In A Sentence
- Jack had the hardihood to deny what he has done.
- Especially when I read of the adventures of Russian and Polish exiles in Siberia -- men of aristocratic lineage wandering amid snow and arctic cold, sleeping on rocks or in hollow trees, and holding their own, empty-handed, against hunger and frost and their fiercer brute embodiments do I recognize a hardihood and a ferity whose wet-nurse, ages back, may well have been this gray slut of the woods. Winter Sunshine
- He was impressed by the extraordinary hardihood and patience with which these men bear their wounds. Times, Sunday Times
- Had we lived, I should have a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman," Scott wrote in his diary, words that have become a touchstone for generations of Brits. Polar Exploration for Armchair Travelers
- He had the hardihood to deny the fact.
- He was not only a very dexterous thief, but was notorious for his boldness and hardihood, and for the number of his previous convictions.
- He had the hardihood to deny the fact.
- If that were true the murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. Sex Dungeon for Sale!
- Careless of his own life and skin, nevertheless David Grief was possessed of no false hardihood. THE DEVILS OF FUATINO
- And she will do it, she has the hardihood and the black ingratitude. A River So Long