hard-bitten in the PONS Dictionary

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However, his clients have become tired of his hard-bitten gold diggers and have started taking their business elsewhere.
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Faced with any particular problem, this hard-bitten, no-nonsense, leather-faced man turns to his trusted iron as a solution.
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Exuding the persona of a cynical, hard-bitten correspondent, he was thrown out of three countries, twice reported dead and routinely subjected to protests.
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In this hard-bitten mining town, history repeats itself.
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She tells her pal she does not want to become a hard-bitten career woman or a user of men.
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It is really little more than a small resonant mood piece whose hard-bitten characters are difficult to like.
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The problem was that, 10 years later, his actors looked too young and healthy to play hard-bitten middle-aged former and practising drug addicts convincingly.
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This is a hard-bitten, uncompromising woman who puts her personal security above all other concerns.
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This exploitive system bound the sharecropper to the land for yet another season, continuing the cycle of hard-bitten poverty.
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She is fortyish, and pretty in a fading, hard-bitten way.
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