hard-bitten

See also: hardbitten

English

Adjective

hard-bitten (comparative more hard-bitten, superlative most hard-bitten)

1. callous and toughened by experience
   • 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.

Translations

callous and toughened by experience

• Bulgarian: кален (bg) (kalen), издръжлив (bg) (izdrǎžliv)
• German: abgebrüht (de), hartgesotten (de)