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Hard-boiled

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Adjective

Cookery . (of an egg) boiled in the shell long enough for the yolk and white to solidify.
Informal . tough; unsentimental
a hard-boiled vice-squad detective.
marked by a direct, clear-headed approach; realistic
a hard-boiled appraisal of the foreign situation.
(of detective fiction) written in a laconic, dispassionate, often ironic style for a realistic, unsentimental effect.

Synonyms

adjective
callous , firm , hard as nails , hard-line * , hard-nosed , hard-shelled , headstrong , inflexible , obdurate , obstinate , rough , stern , strict , unbending , unfeeling , cold-hearted , compassionless , hard , hardened , hardhearted , heartless , stonyhearted

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