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  • adjective Alternative form of hardcore.

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  • adjective intensely loyal
  • adjective extremely explicit
  • adjective stubbornly resistant to change or improvement

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Examples

  • Officials in Tripoli have continuously lashed out at suggestions that the regime's forces might be responsible for the suffering in Misrata, instead blaming the rebels, who they describe as "hard-core al Qaeda" fighters.

    NATO Strikes Tripoli as Gadhafi Forces Shell Misrata Charles Levinson 2011

  • Yammi, who was forced into exile, is among those identified as hard-core liberals opposing the system as a whole.

    The Coming Revolution Walid Phares 2010

  • Two girls are asking the assistant how to cook drisheen, the Irish black pudding which can only be described as a hard-core delicacy.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • Tim was what you could call a hard-core drug taker and I had only known him to vomit after taking drugs if he had taken far too many or eaten mushrooms covered with cow shit.

    Full Frontal Nudity Harry Hamlin 2010

  • Nothing was more important to the lawyers in the Reagan administration than appointing hard-core conservative judges and justices.

    The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010

  • These nones are not necessarily hard-core secularists, as we shall discuss in Chapter 4.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • This hard-core, deeply moralistic less tolerant tenth of the population gives us a glimpse of what a highly religious America might look like without Aunt Susan and my pal Al.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • Rebel negotiators say almost all of the town's residents want to surrender but a hard-core few are holding out.

    Rebels poised as Gadhafi loyalists desert Libya 2011

  • Rebel negotiators say almost all of the town's residents want to surrender but a hard-core few are holding out.

    Rebels poised as Gadhafi loyalists desert Libya 2011

  • They seemed to in a study of the dreams of 64 hard-core gamers and 22 people who play less frequently—all former or current members of the U.S. or Canadian militaries.

    Week in Ideas: Christopher Shea 2012

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