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Definition of Hard-hitting

1. Adjective. Characterized by or full of force and vigor. "A trenchant argument"

2. Adjective. Aggressively and persistently persuasive. "A high-pressure salesman"

Definition of Hard-hitting

1. Adjective. Aggressively vigorous or forceful ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hard-hitting

hard-baked hard-bill hard-bills hard-bitten hard-boil hard-boiled hard-boiled egg hard-code hard-core hard-favoured

hard-fisted hard-fought hard-handed hard-headed hard-hearted hard-hitting (current term) hard-line hard-liner hard-liners hard-mouthed

hard-nosed hard-of-hearing hard-ons hard-pressed hard-sell hard-shell hard-shell clam hard-shell crab hard-skinned puffball

Literary usage of Hard-hitting

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

1. Power and Health Through Progressive Exercise by George Elliot Flint (1905)
"VII hard-hitting THE FIGHTING ABILITIES OF BOXERS AND HARD-HITTERS COMPARED hard-hitting is a subject which I have not yet discussed. ..."

2. Stray Shots: Political, Military, Economical, and Social by Edward Robert Sullivan (1884)
"Those who fancy that hard hitting in public life is a mistake are themselves ... It was hard hitting that made the reputation of Disraeli, of Bright, ..."

3. Pugilistica: The History of British Boxing Containing Lives of the Most by Henry Downes Miles (1906)
"7-—This might be said to have commenced the fight in earnest; both came np determined, and desperate hard hitting took place. ..."

4. Sporting Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02751662] (1809)
"Good rallying, hard hitting ;; Davis fell. 21. Hard fighting; Davis again ... Hard hitting on both sides : Davis slipped down. 30. Closed, and both fell. ..."

5. Inspectors General: Office Consolidation & Related Issues by David M. Walker (2003)
"... Oversight of Cross-Cutting Issues 1 Figure 6: Potential Effect of Consolidation on the Ability of IGs to Issue hard-hitting Reports 30 IG responses 25 ..."

6. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1875)
"A good, slow round-arm bowler ; a hard-hitting batsman, but has no defence ; a good, useful field anywhere; ought to be very useful next year. T. Moore. ..."

7. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1908)
"... and in later years, when the great soreness and grief for Parnell's betrayal and death were less raw, the priests came in for friendly hard hitting, ..."

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