Adjective
- 1. hard-bitten, hard-boiled, pugnacious, tough (vs. tender)
- usage: tough and callous by virtue of experience
- 2. pugnacious, rough, aggressive (vs. unaggressive)
- usage: ready and able to resort to force or violence; "pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance"- Herman Melville; "they were rough and determined fighting men"
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