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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hard-hitting
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 have often been accompanied by hard-hitting comments about the problems his office has encountered.
▪ Novotna really made Seles fight in a hard-hitting battle that surely set a new decibel record!
▪ Respect for Animals, a recently formed pressure group, has chosen a hard-hitting anti-fur campaign as its first move.
▪ Strong words and clear rulings from a hard-hitting legal eagle.
▪ The practical and hard-hitting report was summarised as a special supplement in Building magazine.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
hard-hitting

hard-hitting \hard-hitting\ adj.

  1. characterized by or full of force and vigor; forceful; as, a hard-hitting expose.

    Syn: trenchant, vigorous.

  2. aggressive; as, a hard-hitting advertising campaign. Opposite of unaggressive.

    Syn: high-pressure.

Wiktionary
hard-hitting

a. Aggressively vigorous or forceful

WordNet
hard-hitting

  1. adj. characterized by or full of force and vigor; "a hard-hitting expose"; "a trenchant argument" [syn: trenchant]

  2. aggressively and persistently persuasive; "a hard-hitting advertising campaign"; "a high-pressure salesman" [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.