What (who) is hard-bitten - definition
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hard-bitten
If you describe someone as hard-bitten, you are critical of them because they do not show much emotion or have much sympathy for other people, usually because they have experienced many unpleasant things.
...a cynical hard-bitten journalist.
= tough
ADJ: usu ADJ n [disapproval]
Hard (Zürich)
![Hard and ''Hardau'' buildings as seen from [[Uetliberg]] (November 2013)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hard - Industriequartier - Hardau - Prime-Tower - Uetliberg 2013-11-27 15-00-04.JPG?width=200 "Hard and ''Hardau'' buildings as seen from [[Uetliberg]] (November 2013)")
QUARTER OF THE CITY OF ZURICH, SWITZERLAND
Hard (Zuerich); Hard (Zurich); Zürich-Hard
Hard is a quarter in the district 4 of Zürich. It was formerly a part of Aussersihl municipality, which was incorporated into Zürich in 1893.
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Pronunciation examples for hard-bitten
1. Maybe I'm a little hard-bitten and cynical.
Hooke _ Talks at Google
2. We're all supposed to be hard-bitten, irreverent sorts,
The Demand for Investigative Journalism _ Robin Fields, Andy Donohue + More _ Talks at Google
3. So these are hard, bitten, cynical, skeptical analysts.
Customers Included _ Phil Terry _ Talks at Google
4. because, even if you are a hard-bitten global warming skeptic,
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5. in fact, conservative. Even Rebecca Rose is very kind of hard-bitten
Mariposa _ Greg Bear _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of hard-bitten
1. One of the characters is Billie, a young if hard–bitten aspiring singer who is also a recovering anorexic.
2. Even hard–bitten fashion journalists could rarely bring themselves to put the boot fully into the groin.
3. It is this which has turned Hillary into the hard–bitten, driven politician whose tenacity brooks no reason.
4. The clientele are working class loyalist, true and true, old faces and young faces looking equally hard–bitten.
5. In forthright language, he calls on China‘s leaders – hard–bitten veterans of the Cultural Revolution – to allow greater political freedom.