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hard-bitten

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hard-bit·ten (härdbtn)
adj.
Toughened by experience.
hard-bitten
Adjective
Informal tough and determined
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Adj.1.hard-bitten - tough and callous by virtue of experience
hard-boiled, pugnacious
tough - not given to gentleness or sentimentality; "a tough character"
hard-bitten (Informal)
adjective tough, realistic, cynical, practical, shrewd, down-to-earth, matter-of-fact, hard-nosed (informal) hard-headed, unsentimental, hard-boiled (informal) case-hardened, badass (slang), chiefly U.S. << OPPOSITE idealistic

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Had she been short-haired, heavy-jawed, large- muscled, hard-bitten, and utterly unlovely in every way, all would have been well.
Adventure by London, Jack View in context
Elijah was one of the hard-bitten old-time travelers himself.
Burning Daylight by London, Jack View in context
And each meeting meant a drink; and there was much to talk about; and more drinks; and songs to be sung; and pranks and antics to be performed, until the maggots of imagination began to crawl, and it all seemed great and wonderful to me, these lusty hard-bitten sea- rovers, of whom I made one, gathered in wassail on a coral strand.
John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context
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