hard-mouthed

British  

adjective

1. (of a horse) not responding satisfactorily to a pull on the bit

2. stubborn; obstinate

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Example Sentences

The impression is not shared by the hard-eyed, hard-mouthed peasant, Communist and soldier, Army General Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov, who commands the drive on the Rzhev front and had much to do with planning the others.

From Time Magazine Archive

Many of the legionnaires are German�lean, hard-mouthed, blond men in white kepis, their pockets stuffed with grenades.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bulky, hard-mouthed Bernie Shelton,-50, youngest and meanest of the ill-famed Shelton boys, fell.

From Time Magazine Archive

I galloped off like the wind, on a big hard-mouthed brute.

From With Marlborough to Malplaquet A Story of the Reign of Queen Anne by Strang, Herbert

You would soon spoil him, and make him hard-mouthed, if you jerked the bit about in that fashion.

From First in the Field A Story of New South Wales by Rahey, L.