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HARD BITTEN (4,6)

hard-bitten

hard-bitten - seasoned or steeled by difficult experience

synonyms

cast-iron, hard, hardened, hardy, inured, rugged, stout, strong, sturdy, tough, toughened, vigorous

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in a sentence

He's a hard-bitten old soldier.

He said he adored hard-bitten policemen.

That was hard-bitten, hard-nosed, hard-drinking newshound Edgar Allan Poe.

Not one of them's a hard-bitten tom, the kind you'd find on the streets.

The hard-bitten men round the table knew better than to make that mistake

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etymology

"tough, tough in a fight," literally "given to hard biting," 1715, originally of hunting dogs, from hard (adv.) + bitten, with the past participle used actively (as in free-spoken).

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