hard-bitten in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for hard-bitten in the English»French Dictionary

hard-bitten [Brit hɑːdˈbɪt(ə)n, Am hɑrdˈbɪtn] ADJ

hard-bitten person:

hard-bitten

endurci

hard-bitten in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for hard-bitten in the English»French Dictionary

hard-bitten ADJ

hard-bitten

impudent(e)

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

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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In this hard-bitten mining town, history repeats itself.

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He was one of those old-fashioned, hard-bitten editors they just don't make anymore.

www.winnipegfreepress.com

But hard-bitten fans knew how important it was to "keep a lid on it".

indaily.com.au

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

He eventually convinces a hard-bitten bar girl to help as the couple's son is born, the town doctor having passed out during this, his only vacation.

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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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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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This exploitive system bound the sharecropper to the land for yet another season, continuing the cycle of hard-bitten poverty.

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And the hard-bitten dialogue is jokier and softer, lacking the sucker punch prose of the original.

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