Meaning of hardcrusted | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Having a hard crust.
2. Tough; stubborn; hard-nosed.
   figuratively

Examples

“The pushcart Alleys. And then better and better with the bananas and apples and oranges. Soon green salads with olive oil and the good, hardcrusted bread like—back there.”

“The piedmont surface was now more hardcrusted than before and gleamed like plates of roughly etched and scoured metal.”

“In the end he went over to the fire and helped himself. There was a hot brew and bread, flat and hardcrusted. It hurt his teeth and he almost gave up until hunger gave him the idea of dipping it in his drink.”

“Finally we brought up the cow-dung. Edward loved this too, running his spade carefully under flat, hardcrusted wholemeal turds, like a baker taking his bread out of an oven, and sliding them solicitously into the sack.”

“Around his neck he wore a garland of rosquillas – large hardcrusted doughnuts covered in sticky white icing – on a string.”

“Jubilee Gardens feeds urban dwellers on the east side of the city. Volunteers cleared the vacant lot of broken bricks, shattered glass, and paper trash. They plowed under the hardcrusted earth, enriched the soil, and divided it into sections. Today, interested families may claim a small garden plot and produce fresh vegetables all summer long.”

“Moonlight shines on jars of olives and loaves of hardcrusted bread in the window of the Italian grocery.”

“[…] off he went, pedaling frozen balloon tires over clear pack-ice and hardcrusted snowdrifts”

“Joined in a Deputation of the Antislavery Society to Mr Hewens, Under Secretary for the Colonies, asking for a fuller enquiry into the shootings, finings, &c in Ceylon. We got no redress from this hardcrusted imperialist.”

“In later years, after the Second World War, the larger companies sent a new generation of youthful executives into the region for the purpose of ameliorating this deeply rooted animosity, but even their Rotary-learned jocularity and genial expansiveness could not soften the bias of men whose aversion had become hardcrusted in the heat of the bitter union drives.”

“How are people like popcorn? (Student choice.) How can we get through to hardcrusted people.? (People, like popcorn, have a great beautiful potential. When warmed they respond and open up to reveal their greatness.)”

“Leong [Choon Cheong], studying national servicemen, concluded that “. . . theirs is a practical hardcrusted morality . . . there is more refraining than doing . . . largely negative moral behaviour and [goading this is] the fear of punishment” (Leong, 1978, p. 12).”

“Now I don’t want it to be mistaken that I think Harlan’s perfect. He’s not. He can be a bit hardcrusted when it comes to his views.”

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