ADJECTIVE
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used of persons; emotionally hardened
faced a case-hardened judge - tough and callous by virtue of experience
- (eggs) cooked until the yolk is solid
How To Use hard-boiled In A Sentence
- And yet ever so simple, just hard-boiled eggs soaked overnight in beet juice. Archive 2005-03-01
- Which means a hard-boiled grade-A is an ideal muscle-repair food after a butt-busting workout.
- Friday's demonstration had a joyful and entrepreneurial air, with face-painters emblazoning the Egyptian flag on takers young and old, carts with fresh popcorn, and women offering hard-boiled eggs and koshary, the national dish of lentils, rice and pasta topped with a spicy tomato sauce. A month after revolt, Egyptians march to protect their victory as neighbors demand freedom, too
- Ads urged readers to become skilled, well-paid workers; hard-boiled heroes knocked heads with clients and agency owners over their workplace autonomy.
- Even if the salad is dressed with strips of duck, bits of bacon lardons, goat cheese or sliced hard-boiled eggs, stay the course.
- Given the turbulent and often violent nature of the times, the reasons a writer might choose to reflect them through the medium of hard-boiled detective fiction might seem self-evident.
- Hard-boiled Dreams of the World, winner of the cerebral, intellectually appealing, mentally engrossing and reasonably highbrowed Thinking Blogger Award! Thinking Blogger Awards
- A practical nurse brought old red wine, a silver tray of smoked salmon, crumbled hard-boiled egg, capers and lemon.
- Woronov's prose occupies bizarre territory, somewhere between twisted lyricism and hard-boiled pulp fiction.
- It's going to be called The Drift, its another hard-boiled fiction.