Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a hard or stern face; hard-featured.
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Examples
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A team of hard-faced security guards with tightly furled umbrellas and sinister earpieces did not kneel and scan the jubilant crowd while he celebrated the shot.
'I'm Glad Tiger's Not Here' Lynne Truss 2011
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Remember the hard-faced advisers rushing around barking, bullying?
Hugh Muir's diary 2011
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There was hard-faced Jill, who thought Johnny was a loose cannon, and Johnny's angry daughter, who asked him: "Do you have any honest relationships at all?"
Rewind TV: Page Eight; The Conspiracy Files: 9/11 Ten Years On; The Field of Blood 2011
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Cycling is a grueling sport that has witnessed many fearsome, hard-faced champions.
Schleck Brothers Serve Cold Revenge Jason Gay 2011
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The natives seem confused, but the tribal chief (a stern, hard-faced, but not vicious man) comes in to talk to Belinda.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Yogi’s Review Forum 2009
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They were white men, like us, but they were hard-faced, stern-faced, sombre, and they seemed angry with all our company.
Chapter 12 2010
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James Smith was a hard-faced man, and my heart sank as I encountered him.
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James Smith was a hard-faced man, and my heart sank as I encountered him.
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He was a big hard-faced 'blue-noser' from Nova Scotia, and a braver skipper never took a ship through the Golden Gate to sea.
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And speaking of hard-faced and grim, the next debate is just 10 days away, on 22 September in Orlando.
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