Cynically tough

Usage examples of hardbitten.

In fact, as far as he could tell, he was actually closer to resembling the hardbitten private jingle of his fantasy than he had ever been.

Pariah dogs foraged in piles of garbage, hardbitten whores spat from the windows, and according to the corporal, it was not unusual to stumble across a corpse, probably a victim of the gangs of abandoned children who lived in the fringes of the jungle.

Mere fortune of war had thrown him into company of the hardbitten, crime-stained little band and he had no loyalty due to any of them.

The hardbitten ones gathered nightly near the general store for the taste of the jar and the gabble of senseless gossip.

But the Rokuhara soldiers were muscular, hardbitten fighters, coarse of speech and rude of manner.