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Definition of Hard-core

1. Adjective. Stubbornly resistant to change or improvement. "Hard-core addicts"

2. Adjective. Intensely loyal. "His hard-core supporters"

3. Adjective. Extremely explicit. "Hard-core pornography"

Definition of Hard-core

1. Adjective. (alternative form of hardcore) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hard-core

harchitect hard(a) hard-and-fast hard-arse hard-baked hard-bill hard-bills hard-bitten hard-boil hard-boiled

hard-boiled egg hard-code hard-core (current term) hard-favoured hard-fisted hard-fought hard-handed hard-headed hard-hearted hard-hitting

hard-line hard-liner hard-liners hard-mouthed hard-nosed hard-of-hearing

Literary usage of Hard-core

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Trade and Competition, from Doha to Cancún by OECD Staff (2003)
"Hard Core Cartels Throughout this session there was a strong consensus that hard core cartels are the most egregious anticompetitive practice and they ..."

2. Paradoxes of Free Will by Gunther Siegmund Stent (2002)
"... such as aggression and marital infidelity, on the grounds that animals exhibit them in nature, for evolutionary accountable reasons. hard-core ..."

3. Ireland by OECD Staff, OECD (2006)
"In principle, the sanctions that can be applied against hard-core violations ... The 2002 amendments tried to facilitate conviction for hard-core offences ..."

4. Competition Law and Policy in Latin America: Peer Reviews of Argentina by Inter-American Development Bank (2006)
"The Prosecutor's Office is moving to improve enforcement against hard core cartels. One of the proposed amendments in the ..."

5. Making the Small Shop Profitable by John Herbert Van Deventer (1918)
"... and hard Core fine grained and fough,IS%to!0% Carbon Reheated to toughen the Case <:FiG. 2. WHY HEAT TREATMENT .,,,4' OF CASEHARDENED WORK ..."

6. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1879)
"Hard core " consists of brickbats, broken tiles and slates, cracked crockery, oyster- shells — in short, the miscellany of malodorous rubbish that may be ..."

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