hard-faced
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Played as an adult by an astonishing Natalie Portman – hard-faced, high-haired and snappish as a Venus flytrap – she’s a human tabloid headline, all affected attitude and high-maintenance artifice.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 5, 2018
Beyoncé, in multiple hairstyles and fashions, is shown both alluring and unglamorous: hard-faced, unhappy, sweaty, harshly lit.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2016
He is a vigorous, hard-faced man of forty; born a peasant, he became a soldier, rising to commander of cavalry and the consulship.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 26, 2015
Not so long ago a visiting IMF mission of "hard-faced men with red pencils" would trigger demonstrations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2014
“Ooh, sticking up for Longbottom?” said Pansy Parkinson, a hard-faced Slytherin girl.
From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
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