hard-bitten
See also: hardbitten
English
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[edit]hard-bitten (comparative more hard-bitten, superlative most hard-bitten)
- Callous and toughened by experience.
- 1960 March, N. Caplan, “The Railway Member of Parliament”, in Railway Magazine, page 209:
- It was written of Henry George Ward, M.P. for Sheffield from 1837 to 1849, that "he was also much occupied with railway enterprise in the days of early speculation." This suggests a hard-bitten man of commerce, but Ward had served in the Diplomatic Service and he was Minister Plenipotentiary to Mexico before retiring in 1827 at the age of 30.
- 1996, Victor Davis Hanson, Introduction to The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to The Peloponnesian War:
- Its author, we must remember, was above all a man of action, an elected official, a captain, a traveler, and a pragmatic intellectual, a successful combatant against warrior and disease alike, hardbitten and intimate with both privilege and disgrace, a man who suffered with and outlived most of the greatest men of his age.
- 2024 March 30, Ellen E. Jones, “Civil War film-maker Alex Garland: ‘In the US and UK there’s a lot to be very concerned about’”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
- Kirsten Dunst stars as Lee, a hardbitten photojournalist who leads a group of war correspondents on a road trip towards the conflict’s front line.