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hard-set
[ hahrd-set ]
adjective
- firmly or rigidly set; fixed:
a hard-set smile.
- in a difficult position:
The troops were hard-set before their supplies came.
- determined; obstinate.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hard-set1
1400–50; late Middle English harde set
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Example Sentences
The two men faced each other for a moment with flashing eyes, lowering brows, and hard-set jaws.
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He was a powerfully made man of about sixty-five, with a solemn, hard-set face.
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In short, my dear, I was so hard set, that I was obliged to come to a more favourable compromise with them than I had intended.
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Draconmeyer waved the man away and walked up and down the apartment, his hands behind his back, his lips hard-set.
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Fact is, they're a hard set over to Sidon, and the place is better known by the name of Sodom around here.'
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