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Hard-bitten   /hɑrd-bˈɪtən/   Listen
Hard-bitten

adjective
1.
Tough and callous by virtue of experience.  Synonyms: hard-boiled, pugnacious.





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"Hard-bitten" Quotes from Famous Books



... a hard-bitten old Irishman named Callahan, and nobody got past him without justification. Also, he was a man of robust hates and great loyalties; a man whom Brent Taber was honored ...
— Ten From Infinity • Paul W. Fairman
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... a man of iron, as Christian missionaries go. He had been hard-bitten in his youth and trained in a hard, grim school. In the Isle of Skye he had seen the little cabin where his mother lived pulled down to make more room for a fifty-thousand-acre deer-forest. He had ...
— Rung Ho! • Talbot Mundy
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... hideous hour when she waited, pacing the dining-room in the dusk, four evenings back. For, after consultation with Dr. Jewsbury and Mr. Thoms of Westchurch, John Knott had told her—with a gentleness and delicacy a little surprising in so hard-bitten a man—that, owing to the shattered condition of the bone, amputation of the right leg was imperative. He added that, only too probably, the left would have eventually to go too. They must operate, he said, and operate immediately. ...
— The History of Sir Richard Calmady - A Romance • Lucas Malet
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