hard-bitten

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hard-bit·ten

(härd′bĭt′n)

adj.

Toughened by experience.

hard-bitten

adj

tough and realistic

hard′-bit′ten

adj.

conditioned by battle or struggle; tough; stubborn.

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Adj.

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.) a cynical hard-bitten journalist
romantic, idealistic, gentle, mild, sympathetic, benign, humane, compassionate, merciful

hard-bitten

adjective

Physically toughened so as to have great endurance:

hard, hard-handed, hardy, rugged, tough.

Idiom: hard as nails.

Translations

hard-bitten

[ˈhɑːdˈbɪtn] ADJ → endurecido, amargado

hard-bitten

[ˌhɑːdˈbɪtn] adj → duro/a

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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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Had she been short-haired, heavy-jawed, large- muscled, hard-bitten, and utterly unlovely in every way, all would have been well.

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

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For all that he was a remarkable puppy, Jerry had his limitations, and he could never know the effect produced on the hard-bitten captain by the soft warm contact of his velvet body.

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Genuine sourdoughs (pioneers) they were, tough and hard-bitten, who had been buried so deeply inside the Circle that they did not know there was a Klondike Strike.

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They looked such hard-bitten, wiry, whiskered fellows that their young adversaries felt rather desponding as to the result of the morrow's match.

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There is no gainsaying that the Solomons are a hard-bitten bunch of islands.

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ALLOWING Boris Johnson to visit Moscow to meet Russia's hard-bitten Foreign Secretary Sergey Lavrov had predictable results.

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A new voice in crime writing well worth keeping an eye on for those who love their thrillers fast-paced and hard-bitten.

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You've got to get hard-bitten and professional and see games through.

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The message, ultimately, is that like many hard-bitten detectives, Luther is inextricably drawn into this world, steeped in a darkness that allows him to see into the minds of psychopaths, but it invariably exacts an inner toll.

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