hard-bitten

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hard-bitten

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Callous and toughened by experience. It was written of Henry George Ward, M.P. for Sheffield from 1837 to 1849, that "he was also much occupied with railway enterprise in the days of early speculation." This suggests a hard-bitten man of commerce, but Ward had served in the Diplomatic Service and he was Minister Plenipotentiary to Mexi

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adj callous and toughened by experience

Deutsch	abgebrüht, hartgesotten

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@misc{hard_bitten_2026,
  title = {hard-bitten},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hard-bitten},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}