Adjective : a hard-bitten army. ,a hard-bitten old teacher. From Dictionary.com.
HOLMES: Generals are often hard-bitten, tough, demanding. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 9, 2008] Reference
MOOS: Even hard-bitten reporters seem smitten by the new Bond. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 28, 2006] Reference
MOOS: Even hard-bitten reporters seemed smitten by the new Bond. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2007] Reference
This is what it sounds like when hard-bitten journalists eat crow. From Wordnik.com. [Spurlock's Super Size Lawsuit; Which Critics Beat the Odds?] Reference
A few hard-bitten trees and shrubs were huddled low against the wind. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Wall]
Is the candidate's charisma melting even some hard-bitten journalists?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 13, 2008] Reference
Your image was one of a hard-bitten, as I understand it, tough financial guy. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 28, 2001] Reference
Watching Obama's speech, my eyes kept flooding ... me ... a hard-bitten cynic. From Wordnik.com. [Obama: My Election Demonstrates That "The Dream Of Our Founders Is Alive"] Reference
I felt that this woman was nowhere near as hard-bitten as campaign lore had it. From Wordnik.com. [Love, War & Running For President] Reference
Captain O'Neil was a grizzled, hard-bitten Hoka in shorts, tunic, and bandolier. From Wordnik.com. [Hokas Pokas]
GPA was founded in 1975 by hard-bitten Irishman Tony Ryan, still chairman, now 56. From Wordnik.com. [Turbulence In Ireland] Reference
Karsen could tell that the sight they were seeing impressed even his hard-bitten mother. From Wordnik.com. [Darkness of the Light] Reference
Few American figures are more legendary than the hard-bitten, but idealistic news editor. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2001] Reference
I mean, I think even Democrats as well as hard-bitten Republicans find a tolerance level. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 2, 2004] Reference
All day long, hard-bitten Washington insiders were swooning in the presence of Her Majesty. From Wordnik.com. [Dinner With the Queen] Reference
After all, I suspect that even the most hard-bitten racist knew the rant was inappropriate. From Wordnik.com. [Robert J. Elisberg: The Doctor Is out] Reference
He sounded typically male, shedding the hard-bitten cynicism for an endearingly boyish enthusiasm. From Wordnik.com. [Mistress for a Weekend]
Thorne is the most compelling aspect of "Proof of Life," thanks to Crowe's quiet, hard-bitten charisma. From Wordnik.com. [Hostage Heat] Reference
And when you're like that, you'd like to think -- even a White Sox fan, as cynical and hard-bitten and. From Wordnik.com. [Can the White Sox Stay Hot?] Reference
Of course, those same hard-bitten security types concede that, in economic matters, there are two superpowers. From Wordnik.com. [The Quiet Superpower] Reference
Just thought it sounded better that way, made the addressee seem more hard-bitten to bear a sugar-coated name. From Wordnik.com. [The WELL: Sugaree] Reference
Any cadet within hailing distance of the hard-bitten spaceman was likely to wind up with a bookful of demerits. From Wordnik.com. [The Revolt on Venus] Reference
No wonder, as a hard-bitten Scot, do I now feel as if I'm on the outside looking in at a country that once was?. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
But I wonder, aren't journalists, these hard-bitten, cynical, hardboiled people, supposed to be more skeptical than that?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 11, 2007] Reference
She remembered Jackie Mitchell well — a hard-working, hard-bitten journalist, well capable of fighting her own battles. From Wordnik.com. [Deadline for Murder]
Around Westminster today plenty of normally hard-bitten folk have been saying to me how good Fraser was on Question Time. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
'Any more of you in the water?' asked her commander, Lieutenant Carey, a keen, hard-bitten young man of about twenty-eight. From Wordnik.com. [On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles] Reference
A member of the hungry, hard-bitten band owned a solitary lucifer; but was afraid that the damp had deprived it of all virtue. From Wordnik.com. [VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea] Reference
It was a strange opposition: the hard-bitten private-eye expression on the face of a girl wearing a uniform for private school. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
Even the most hard-bitten pro-slavers couldn't but admire "the conscientiousness, the honour, and the supreme bravery of the man". From Wordnik.com. [Flashman and the angel of the lord]
The men were of a tanned, hard-bitten, adventurous brand; the women were nearly all pretty or attractive or both, and mostly young. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
How I longed to be part of a family, and not just a small collection of hard-bitten individuals who couldn't bear each others 'pain. From Wordnik.com. [Fault Line]
That sort of tactic is easier to sell if you're just the First Lady than if you're trying to impress the hard-bitten voters of New York. From Wordnik.com. [More Than Just A Kiss] Reference
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