hard-featured
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- hard-featuredness noun
Etymology
Origin of hard-featured
First recorded in 1740–50
Example Sentences
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Each one is a solemn, hard-featured picture that stands apart by itself and has no connecting link with any other one in the language.
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On a hot summer morning, they might be seen lounging about the trading-house, basking in the sun, begging for a dram of whiskey, or chaffering with the hard-featured trader for beads, tobacco, gunpowder, and red paint.
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She looked quite her age now: all suggestion of the young girl had gone, she was a stern, hard-featured woman.
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She was almost glad when Bishop and the man in shirt-sleeves emerged from the lodge followed by a tall, hard-featured woman in a dirty mob-cap.
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It has only one disadvantage," remarked the hard-featured man: "you can only do it once in each town.
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