hard-bitten in the PONS Dictionary

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The state's vibrant, blue-collar era is over -- and what's left is a core of hard-bitten residents who are disconnected from the political system.
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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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In our cynical, hard-bitten times it all looks a little much...
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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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This battle, expected to be a war of attrition is off to a predictably hard-bitten start, with the first six games spanning half an hour.
www.smh.com.au
And the hard-bitten dialogue is jokier and softer, lacking the sucker punch prose of the original.
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In this hard-bitten mining town, history repeats itself.
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Deep down, you suspect they think we're all like that - beady-eyed, unsmiling, brusque and hard-bitten.
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Its lyrical quality suggests that beneath the hard-bitten scoffer there lurks a romantic softie, while beneath that again lies a hard-bitten scoffer.
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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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