ADJECTIVE
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aggressively and persistently persuasive
a hard-hitting advertising campaign
a high-pressure salesman -
characterized by or full of force and vigor
a hard-hitting expose
a trenchant argument
How To Use hard-hitting In A Sentence
- The campaign, backed by Swindon Council and the police, has seen hard-hitting posters go up in car parks across town.
- Young people are drifting into crime because too little is being spent on keeping them out of trouble, a hard-hitting survey has revealed.
- The English playwright has made an impressive career producing a bevy of hard-hitting, didactic and experimental plays.
- Hard-hitting posters will soon go up around Swindon pubs and clubs warning women that they risk losing their looks if they carry on boozing too hard.
- In fact, the subtitled video is a poignant and hard-hitting meditation on four Turkish women who wear wigs, and why they do so.
- Everything was lined up for a hard-hitting report last week. Times, Sunday Times
- The usually hard-hitting critics of the ABC in some media outlets seem to have ignored this story completely.
- The Insider, an honest and hard-hitting film, won nothing.
- Increasingly high-profile and hard-hitting campaigns have been aimed at keeping children away from railway lines.
- This week's review is a hard cover book with a hard-hitting jacket, determined to catch your attention.