Tough and callous by virtue of experience.
Ready and able to resort to force or violence.
Синонимы
Examples for "hard-boiled "
Examples for "hard-boiled "
1 Of course heat will, as we know from hard - boiled yolks and custards.
2 Cut hard - boiled eggs in half the long way and remove the yolks.
3 Take yolk of one hard - boiled egg and rub smooth in a bowl.
4 Remember the grubs of the greenbottle, fed on hard - boiled white of egg.
5 Break the shells from the hard - boiled eggs, and cover with this mixture.
1 Shearson, which American Express acquired in 1981, was a hard - bitten retail-brokerage business.
2 It was a moment to further age the hard - bitten souls in attendance.
3 Three of the soldiers came ambling across the road, lean, hard - bitten men.
4 A month later the gaunt, hard - bitten outfit tied up at the Landing.
5 Or a hard - bitten Taliban fighter who finds common cause with a rose?
1 The famously pugnacious , conservative judge had been a vote against the rule.
2 A large, pugnacious - looking man on the left put in the first comment.
3 The white-headed sea-eagle is a deadly foe to the pugnacious sea-serpent also.
4 Their dispositions are very different, the grey being fiercer and more pugnacious .
5 The pair were very pugnacious , attacking any birds coming near their nest.
6 The captain squared himself toward Lanyard, his face louring, his jaw pugnacious .
7 They are very characteristic birds, have strong family traits and pugnacious dispositions.
8 A short wiry man with a pugnacious face and a cocksure mustache.
9 Of a happy-go-lucky disposition, of a temperament more pugnacious than military, Lieut.
10 Bill Bunton resisted arrest and was pugnacious , of course declaring his innocence.
11 Lancey, although mentally and morally a man of peace, was physically pugnacious .
12 Doctor Isaac Barrow was such a dull, pugnacious , stupid fellow, etc., etc.
13 Nor any officer more pugnacious on his juniors' account, I assure you!
14 As Win concluded, Edith's high color lessened and Roger looked less pugnacious .
15 He frightened timid people; he made the pugnacious angry and resentful.
16 The grasping home makes the pugnacious disturber of the public peace.
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