hard-shell
Origin of hard-shell
Related Words for hard-shell
accepted, accustomed, chronic, deep-rooted, deep-seated, dyed-in-the-wool, entrenched, fixed, habituated, hardened, ineradicable, ingrained, inveterate, irradicable, proved, seasoned, set, settled, staid, inuredExamples from the Web for hard-shell
Contemporary Examples of hard-shell
There are reasons, in other words, for hard-shell conservatives to give him the gimlet eye.
One main culprit was the hard-shell helmet that had essentially become a spearing weapon.
What the hard-shell righties want to know is not about the boring issue of consular security.
From a policy perspective, this is the next battleground, the pressure point of resistance for the hard-shell ideologues.
The Resistance Begins: Rick Scott Announces Florida Won't Take Medicaid MoneyMichael Tomasky
July 2, 2012
Historical Examples of hard-shell
The former is sold in the San Francisco markets as the "hard-shell clam."
The Sea-beach at Ebb-tideAugusta Foote Arnold
He is such a hard-shell being that he cannot put out feelers to his kind.
GreenmantleJohn Buchan
This man was a Hard-shell Baptist, commonly imperturbable to outside sights and doings when the spirit moved him.
The Lincoln Story BookHenry L. Williams
The Almonds commonly sold by nurserymen in the east are hard-shell varieties, and the nuts are not good enough for commerce.
The Practical Garden-BookC. E. Hunn
These people boast that their hard-shell wheat is decidedly superior to that of Dakota and Minnesota.
A Summer's OutingCarter H. Harrison