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hard-bitten

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hard-bit·ten (härdbtn)
adj.
Toughened by experience.

hard-bitten
adj
tough and realistic
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.hard-bitten - tough and callous by virtue of experience
tough - not given to gentleness or sentimentality; "a tough character"

hard-bitten (Informal)
Translations
hard-bitten [ˈhɑːdˈbɪtn] ADJendurecido, amargado
hard-bitten [ˌhɑːdˈbɪtn] adjduro/a
hard-bitten [ˌhɑːdˈbɪtn] adjduro/a


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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.
Elijah was one of the hard-bitten old-time travelers himself.
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.
 
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