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Definition of Hard-bitten
1. Adjective. Tough and callous by virtue of experience.
Definition of Hard-bitten
1. Adjective. callous and toughened by experience ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hard-bitten
Literary usage of Hard-bitten
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches. a Quarterly Magazine Descriptive of (1886)
"All seem stamped with the same hard-bitten, weather-stained countenance, and from
the doggy expression on their faces one could swear that they were ..."
2. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"Hard fighting there was for the hard-bitten, keen, daring, lovable gars of the
blue uniform, who swarmed over Le Mort Homme as they have over obstacle after ..."
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