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hard-hitting
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Aggressively vigorous or forceful
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. characterized by or full of force and vigor; "a hard-hitting expose"; "a trenchant argument" [syn: trenchant ] aggressively and persistently persuasive; "a hard-hitting advertising campaign"; "a high-pressure salesman" [syn: high-pressure ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a hard-hitting TV documentary EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But the marketing campaign conflicts directly with the government's latest hard-hitting message for drink-drivers. ▪ Firm judgments of the cases he has investigated ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
hard-hitting \hard-hitting\ adj. characterized by or full of force and vigor; forceful; as, a hard-hitting expose. Syn: trenchant, vigorous. aggressive; as, a hard-hitting advertising campaign. Opposite of unaggressive . Syn: high-pressure.
Usage examples of hard-hitting.
Three hundred fellow beings pushed together in a bar, and there I would be, maybe firing hard-hitting, long-range rimfire bullets.
And he said, 'Patti Bowen and me are working together on a hard-hitting direct-action group, nudge nudge wink wink.
From the very first page, it's a pure adrenalin rush of slick, hard-hitting prose, superb characterisation and a plot that grabs you and just won't let go.
The vast horde of civilians and animals was encircled by a thin crust of red-coated infantry, most of them Indian sepoys, whose job was to protect the merchants, ammunition and draught animals from the quick-riding, hard-hitting light cavalry of the Tippoo Sultan.
It also had a hard-hitting editorial on Empire Loyalist lines that exactly suited the politics of the neighborhood, and, for good measure, it was stylishly made up each week (it was a weekly) by a man called Harling who was quite a dab at getting the most out of the old-fashioned type faces that were all our steam-age jobbing printers in Pimlico had in stock.