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case-hardened
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case-hardened
Adjective
having been made callous by experience: a case-hardened senior policewoman
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Adj.1.case-hardened - used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a case-hardened judge"
hardened, hard-boiled
hard - dispassionate; "took a hard look"; "a hard bargainer";
Translations
case-hardened [ˈkeɪshɑːdnd] case adj (fig) → abgebrüht (inf)


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