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hard-featured

[ hahrd-fee-cherd ]

/ ˈhɑrdˈfi tʃərd /

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adjective

having stern, harsh, or unattractive features.

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Origin of hard-featured

First recorded in 1740–50

OTHER WORDS FROM hard-featured

hard-fea·tured·ness, noun

Words nearby hard-featured

harden off, harden one's heart, harden up, hard-faced, hard-favored, hard-featured, hard feeling, hard feelings, hard fern, hard-fisted, hard goods

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Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.
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We also have a growing body of biological research showing that fathers, like mothers, are hard-wired to care for children.
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He thought they were now in touch with our troops at "X" but that they had been through some hard fighting to get there.
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However this be, it is hard to say that these fibs have that clear intention to deceive which constitutes a complete lie.
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And it would be hard indeed, if so remote a prince's notions of virtue and vice were to be offered as a standard for all mankind.
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Even if poverty were gone, the flail could still beat hard enough upon the grain and chaff of humanity.
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"I congratulate you on your engagement," he said at last, looking up with a face that seemed to Bernard hard and unnatural.
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