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hard-hitting
[ hahrd-hit-ing ]
adjective
- striking or capable of striking with force.
- strikingly or effectively forceful:
a hard-hitting exposé.
hard-hitting
adjective
- uncompromising; tough
a hard-hitting report on urban deprivation
Word History and Origins
Origin of hard-hitting1
Example Sentences
Can music be both milquetoast and hard-hitting at the same time?
Are you going to mix it up with celebrities, or include mostly hard-hitting subjects?
The taste is intense, with hard-hitting wormwood flavor and lemony undertones.
Ann Romney did much better, with her hard-hitting theme: Mitt Romney does not fail at what he undertakes.
The result is a hard-hitting drama that deals with the unknowable impulses of the universe and of the human heart itself.
He had latterly taken a fancy to wild-fowl shooting by the coast, for which a very hard-hitting, long-range gun was needed.
The plain profile of this man reminds one of the hard-hitting, rough-riding Roundhead.
For all purposes except the actual hard-hitting they are the most useful weapon which the commander of the fleet possesses.
Ken went out deeper, for he knew most hard-hitting left-handers hit to right field.
That brought it to the last one, who chanced to be the hard-hitting catcher, Ballinger.
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