hard-faced

British  

adjective

1. dialect  cheeky

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Example Sentences

One fan assaulted the N.H.L.’s commissioner, Clarence Campbell — a hard-faced symbol of English power — and another set off a smoke bomb in the Montreal Forum, and soon the brawling was so wild that the fire marshal ordered the crowd to retreat to the streets, where a full-scale riot broke out.

From New York Times

Her roguish lawyer ex-husband, played by Alec Baldwin, broke her heart by running off with a hard-faced younger woman who is now failing to satisfy him on the life-affirming laughter front, so he starts having an affair with his ex-wife.

From The Guardian

After he had become the powerful director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art, he would recall that he took it to be a “picture of the hard-faced old woman, looking out of the handsome oval window of the expensive automobile with her hand to her face as though the smell of the street was offending her, and I thought, ‘Isn’t that marvelous?’

From New York Times

Her profile hadn't been helped by some unnecessarily vicious press, which branded the teenager a "chav" and a "gypsy", and accused her of being a "hard-faced diva" who had "lashed out at a crew member and waved a spoon in her face".

From BBC

“You’re a master of your own destiny,” is how the hard-faced branch manager puts it.

From The Guardian