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die-hard

a. (alternative spelling of diehard English) n. (alternative spelling of diehard English)

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die-hard

adj. tradition-bound and obstinately opinionated; "an inflexible (or die-hard) conservative"; "rock-ribbed republican" [syn: die-hard(a), rock-ribbed]

Usage examples of "die-hard".

And then followed Captain Pond, who, having moved his audience to tears, pronounced the Looe Die-hards disbanded.

Darcey seemed to Martyn to follow adequately the somewhat conventional die-hard the author had intended.

Die-hard materialists can have these experiences as easily as purebred idealists, and both are completely stunned into awestruck silence: the depths of the Mystery are disclosing themselves, and a muted mind must only bend in reverential awe.

Our thirty or forty die-hard antismoking demonstrators were gone, replaced by something like two hundred angry and jittery-looking people holding signs that said things like choice!

Die-hard materialists can have these experiences as easily as purebred idealists, and both are completely stunned into awestruck silence: the depths of the Mystery are disclosing themselves, and a muted mind must only bend in reverential awe.

Die-hard Earl Strong supports were stepping away from her as if she was going to give them AIDS, and minicam crews and news photographers were converging on her as if she were going to make them famous.

In the country towns, like Hexham, or the smaller places like Allendale Town, or Gorbridge, here it was you found the die-hards and all that went with die-hards, pigheadedness, superstitions, and the deeper you went into the country roundabout the stronger the superstitions.

He had never believed the die-hard psychobiologists who had insisted that the aesthetic judgments which underlay sexual attractiveness were genetically hardwired so that the idea of beauty and the appearance of youth were inextricably tied together.

The professor was the last to emerge, juggling an armful of papers and accompanied by a die-hard apple polisher who followed him down the hall peppering him with questions.

Your Benevolent Assimilation Proclamation has been accepted by all except a few die-hards -- and blow-hards like Bryan.

Full-size turnpike cruisers no longer earn much of a market share, and for those die-hards who still want one from the Ford Motor Company, the Mercury Grand Marquis is the same car in fancier clothes for about the same money, so it mops up the private sales.

Die-hard punsters would make torturing language take precedence over matters of life and death.

Then, shockingly, for the first time in thirty-six years, since the playing of the final game of the last World Series before a solemn crowd of only three hundred die-hard fans, the night-lights of Battersea Stadium flared on, bathing the stained and tattered artificial playing field with harsh blue light.