Synonym: hard-boiled, pugnacious. Similar words: bitten, backbitten, frostbitten, Once bitten twice shy, hard by, hardball, hardback, hard-boiled. Meaning: adj. tough and callous by virtue of experience.
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1) He's a hard-bitten old soldier.
2) He said he adored hard-bitten policemen.
3) That was hard-bitten, hard-nosed, hard-drinking newshound Edgar Allan Poe.
4) Not one of them's a hard-bitten tom, the kind you'd find on the streets.
5) The hard-bitten men round the table knew better than to make that mistake.
6) Very few teachers are irredeemable[sentencedict.com], however hard-bitten they may appear.
7) Miss Davies is not really the tough, hard-bitten businesswoman that she appears to be.
8) Jensen's experience in prison left him hard-bitten, cynical, and ruthless.
9) He was a hard-bitten, good-tempered, intelligent fellow.
10) To be hard-bitten would be necessary, but be happy?
11) Left a hard-bitten stone alone.
12) That these hard-bitten guerrilla leaders actually believed in such a Christian approach to the problem of war and revolution of course, seemed to me preposterous.
13) Abu Ghraib, a hard-bitten town surrounded by lush farmland, is one of the trouble spots for American soldiers facing fierce challenges from both Sunni Muslim insurgents and radical Shi'ite militiamen.
14) This particular murder case was so horrific that it shocked even the most hard-bitten of New York police officers.
15) He then lifted the phone to call Peggy Vanderheld,(http://sentencedict.com/hard-bitten.html) Hauser's statuesque and hard-bitten personal assistant.
16) Julie Riley and Paula Wilcox are excellent as the hard-bitten contestant regulars.
17) When you had fallen to the bottom of your life, every people around you would tell you: Be hard-bitten and be happy!
18) Plus, his efforts have done a great deal to prevent a Chelsea hat-trick and there's much more goodwill to Manchester United these days- even hard-bitten journalists aren't immune to these feelings.
19) It requires a firm knowledge, a quick brain, a hard-bitten determination, a noble personality and great spirit as well as a very practical attitude.
20) A point I often make that surprises people is that Kim Il Sung was really beloved, even hard-bitten defectors I know still speak with maybe grudging reverence for Kim Il Sung.
21) His experiences in that country have left him really hard-bitten.
22) She thinks she can arrest a single man , but she doesn't know a single man is the most hard-bitten, or else he would have been arrested by other women early.
More similar words: bitten, backbitten, frostbitten, Once bitten twice shy, hard by, hardball, hardback, hard-boiled, bitter, bittern, embitter, bitterly, bitter end, bitterness, bittersweet, mitten, kitten, bitter orange, written, smitten, to the bitter end, unwritten, remittent, bitter chocolate, sharp-witted, handwritten, hard-hitting, intermittent, unwritten law, intermittence.