Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having harsh features; ill-favored.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of a harsh or stern countenance; hard-featured.
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Examples
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As yet he had hardly looked at her, but he felt that she had become old and worn, angular and hard-visaged.
Phineas Redux 2004
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Three hard-visaged Klingons were standing in a semicircle around her.
The Fearful Summons Flinn, Denny Martin 1995
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Three hard-visaged Klingons were standing in a semicircle around her.
The Fearful Summons Denny Martin Flinn 1990
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Three hard-visaged Klingons were standing in a semicircle around her.
The Fearful Summons Denny Martin Flinn 1990
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Three hard-visaged Klingons were standing in a semicircle around her.
The Fearful Summons Denny Martin Flinn 1990
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Later Edmund Burke called the province of Nova Scotia Can unprospering, hard-visaged and ill-favoured brat '.
Canada's New Status 1967
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The man that finally looked out was a hard-visaged sort, gorgeous in the furs and jewelry of a noble.
Starways Anderson, Poul 1956
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In middle life, our poor Sophie, who as a girl was so gay and frolicsome, so full of spirits, had dried and sharpened into a hard-visaged, angular woman, -- careful and troubled about many things, and forgetful that one thing is needful.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Various
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A hard-visaged warrior leaned forward in his chair, and shook his head slowly.
The Universe — or Nothing Meyer Moldeven
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She was a hard-visaged creature of mature age, but she looked neat in her black dress and white cap; and she had a motherly way of attending to these people, with a capacious smile of her large mouth which was full of charm.
The Magician 1919
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