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• s  tough and callous by virtue of experience
• s  used of persons; emotionally hardened
• s  (eggs) cooked until the yolk is solid

• Jake was horribly wounded in the warin fact, he was effectively geldedso he spends his time in Paris getting drunk in cafes, nursing his ennui, bantering with his hard-boiled .
• Along them wanders Philip Marlowe, a cynical, perfectly hard-boiled private investigator hired by an old millionaire to find the husband of his beautiful, bitchy wildcat daughter.
• The only hard-boiled member of elderly and intellectual Premier Leon Blum's present Cabinet was Minister of Interior Roger Salengro, and paradoxically it was he who last week .

• hard-bitten
• pugnacious
• case-hardened
• hardened

News & Articles

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• 3 Characters Disney Should Consider for Its First R-Rated Comic Book Film
  The House of Mouse is going to have to get hard-boiled.        
  June 22, 2013 - The Motley Fool
• Rick Sweeney is tough, but only on the outside
  Central to most boxing movies is the crusty trainer, the one who would pass for just an irascible old coot were it not for his fighter who draws us in for a closer look. We learn through Balboa that behind Mick’s rough exterior is a true softy. Maggie does the same for Frankie in “Million Dollar Baby.” Although clichés, these hard-boiled characters really are in the sport. Take Albany’s Rick ...
  June 19, 2013 - The Troy Record
• Simple technique makes fresh hard-boiled eggs easy to peel.
  Blog partner Kathleen Bauer at GoodStuffNW reveals a secret for easy-to-peel hard-boiled eggs using farm fresh eggs.
  June 18, 2013 - The Oregonian

Quotes

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• Jan Sterling in TheDay
  In "Ace in the Hole," perhaps director Billy Wilder's darkest film, the actress Jan Sterling tells Kirk Douglas' Chuck Tatum, an ethically challenged reporter, "I've met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my time, but you - you're 20 minutes."
• Takeru Kobayashi in al.com
  There are things about eating that I will miss,Kobayashi said. "The sandwiches, the hard-boiled eggs, the satisfying feeling you get after replenishing your body's nutrients, and especially the fried dumplings."