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hard-edged

hard-edged adjective: tough and unsentimental.

Adjective

hard-edged (comparative more hard-edged, superlative most hard-edged)

  1. tough and unsentimental
    • Duffy also manages to completely avoid sentimentality, maybe because the world in which her characters live doesn't allow much softness. Both mother and daughter have a hard-edged survival mentality, but both are able to preserve a deep ability to love.1985 February 2, Andrea Freud Loewenstein, “Lust, Guilt and Authentic Lesbian Lives”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 28, page 11

Forms of hard-edged

comparativemore hard-edged
superlativemost hard-edged

Questions about hard-edged

What does hard-edged mean?
Hard-edged means tough and unsentimental.
What part of speech is hard-edged?
Hard-edged is an adjective.

Words near hard-edged in the dictionary

  1. hard-easy effect
  2. hard-easy effects
  3. hard-edge
  4. hard-edge painting
  5. hard-edge paintings
  6. hard-edged
  7. hard-favoured
  8. hard-featured
  9. hard-fisted
  10. hard-float
  11. hard-fought

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