hard-liner

or hard·lin·er

[ hahrd-lahy-ner ]

noun

1. a person who adheres rigidly to a dogma, theory, or plan.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hard-liner¹

First recorded in 1960–65; hard-line + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Trump named Stephen Miller, an immigration hard-liner also linked to Project 2025, as his deputy chief of staff for policy.

From Los Angeles Times

Matthew Yglesias bemoans Biden’s supposed lack of urgency on inflation but can’t cite a fiscal misstep beyond student-debt forgiveness—a policy that the Supreme Court blocked, and which another student-debt hard-liner, the economist Jason Furman, calculated would have contributed only 0.2 or 0.3 percent to inflation anyway.

From Slate

Trump, who made mass deportations a centerpiece of his 2024 election campaign, is also expected to appoint another longtime ally and immigration hard-liner, Stephen Miller, as deputy chief of staff for policy.

From Los Angeles Times

Mr. Rosendale, a right-wing hard-liner, had been viewed as the only serious challenger to Mr. Sheehy, for whom the Republican establishment had worked to clear the field.

From New York Times

In 2005, then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, a hard-liner, ordered the withdrawal of Israeli military troops from Gaza and the forcible relocation of around 8,500 Jewish settlers.

From Los Angeles Times