hard-boiled
adjective
(of an egg) boiled in the shell long enough for the yolk and white to solidify.
hard-boiledness
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a word derived from
hard-boiled.
Example Sentences
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So yeah, we do various takes, and find the right level of hard-boiledness in the edit.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 26, 2011
As in the last war, most of the sweep volunteers were fishermen, whose hard-boiledness is widely advertised now by their radio telephones.
From Time Magazine Archive
