Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having coarse features.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having coarse, unattractive or stern features.
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Examples
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The latter were big, hard-featured, sheepish-faced men, who stared at Saxon as if afraid of her.
CHAPTER XVIII 2010
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The children of the neighbourhood were afraid of the hard-featured shrew who presided over the Bartell house; but, summoning their resolution, they rang the bell and told Ann Bartell of the accident.
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What was it about this hard-featured man that inspired such confidence?
Captured by Moonlight Nancy Gideon 2010
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What was it about this hard-featured man that inspired such confidence?
Captured by Moonlight Nancy Gideon 2010
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In Nanxuzhou Pearl came close to taking the conventional missionary view that pictured Chinese people not as individuals but as a menacing, faceless horde, morally obnoxious and numerically overwhelming: “hard-featured, envious, curious, unsympathetic and ungracious,” as the head of U.S. Presbyterian Missions put it on a tour of the Yangtse basin, “they flock to a foreigner and close him in, like ants to a piece of bread.”
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010
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What was it about this hard-featured man that inspired such confidence?
Captured by Moonlight Nancy Gideon 2010
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In Nanxuzhou Pearl came close to taking the conventional missionary view that pictured Chinese people not as individuals but as a menacing, faceless horde, morally obnoxious and numerically overwhelming: “hard-featured, envious, curious, unsympathetic and ungracious,” as the head of U.S. Presbyterian Missions put it on a tour of the Yangtse basin, “they flock to a foreigner and close him in, like ants to a piece of bread.”
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010
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But a high nose, a full, decided, well-opened, quick grey eye, and a sanguine complexion, made amends for some coarseness and irregularity in the subordinate parts of the face; so that, altogether, Montrose might be termed rather a handsome, than a hard-featured man.
A Legend of Montrose 2008
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In a word, he has such an easy, yet manly politeness, as well in his dress, as in his address (no singu — larity appearing in either) that were he not a fine figure of a man, but were even plain and hard-featured, he would be thought (what is far more eligible in a man, than mere beauty) very agreeable.
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Northumberland are lusty fellows, fresh complexioned, cleanly, and well cloathed; but the labourers in Scotland are generally lank, lean, hard-featured, sallow, soiled, and shabby, and their little pinched blue caps have a beggarly effect.
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