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hardlooking

hardlooking adjective: having a severe, vaguely menacing facial expression.

Adjective

hardlooking (comparative more hardlooking, superlative most hardlooking)

  1. Having a severe, vaguely menacing facial expression.
    • They sat in the backs of small, makeshift wagons, hardlooking men and women and their hardlooking, skinny children, preaching you over to their stand, promising your money's worth.2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 21, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 119

Forms of hardlooking

comparativemore hardlooking
superlativemost hardlooking

Origin of hardlooking

From hard + looking.

Questions about hardlooking

What does hardlooking mean?
Hardlooking means having a severe, vaguely menacing facial expression.
What part of speech is hardlooking?
Hardlooking is an adjective.

Words near hardlooking in the dictionary

  1. hardlinks
  2. hardlock
  3. hardlocked
  4. hardlocking
  5. hardlocks
  6. hardlooking
  7. hardluck
  8. hardly
  9. hardman
  10. Hardmans
  11. hardmaxx

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