hard-featured
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of hard-featured
First recorded in 1740–50
Example Sentences
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Luis Sanchez Cerro, hard-featured, short-statured leader of the Peruvian revolution which made him When 60 armed civilians and soldiers stormed the Presidential Palace in Lima it was only a short day's work for Col.
From Time Magazine Archive
Breathlessly Mexico City awaited the reaction of big-boned, hard-featured Governor Tejeda.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was Deputy Secretary Roger Kyes, a hard-featured giant brought along from General Motors, where Wilson had originally hired him to get G.M.'s truck division out of the red.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her appearance always acted as a damper to the curiosity raised by her oral oddities: hard-featured and staid, she had no point to which interest could attach.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Her waiting-woman, Merryn, middle-aged and hard-featured, sits watching her in a chair on the farther side of the bed.
From King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? by Bottomley, Gordon
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