Definitions for hard-bitten

hard-bitten hard-bit·ten

Spelling: [hahrd-bit-n]
IPA: /ˈhɑrdˈbɪt n/

Hard-Bitten is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 729 anagrams from letters in hard-bitten (-abdehinrtt).

Definitions for hard-bitten

adjective

  1. tough; stubborn.
  2. conditioned by battle or struggle:
  3. grim or severe in judgment or attitude:
  4. hard-boiled (defs 2, 3).

Origin of hard-bitten

First recorded in 1775-85

Examples for hard-bitten

hard-bitten conservatives might be relieved, then, to find their misgivings about the president reflected by the left as well.

In height he was tall, and his figure was thin and loose-jointed, but stringy and hard-bitten.

He was a fighter, a dominant, hard-bitten woodsman, so the tale ran.

The hard-bitten tailor was easy to quarrel with at any time.

His gift for salty language impressed even the most hard-bitten grunts.

There is no gainsaying that the Solomons are a hard-bitten bunch of islands.

Trebell is hard-bitten, brainy, forty-five and very sure of himself.

But even the most hard-bitten Chicagoans have to see very good times on the horizon.

Soldiers appeared, hard-bitten, tough, professional Greek soldiers.

Even the most hard-bitten Chicagoans have to see very good times on the horizon.

Word Value for hard-bitten
Scrable

8

Words with friends

7

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