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- adjective vulgar Of a person who has a very difficult personality; a
perfectionist .
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Examples
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I especially liked Hans Brauer (Darby on Sons of Anarchy) as the supposedly hard-assed covert agent who folded like a little kid once he discovered This is Not a Game.
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TV Doakes talks too much, and he ends up reminding me of about 275 other hard-assed cops.
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An ethic of old-fashioned, hard-assed knuckling down, less evident in today's society, often makes a more adept and resilient student than a culture of parental indulgence.
Marian Salzman: Booting Up Marian Salzman 2010
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Her back straightened, her fingers tightened on the shotgun, and once again, I saw a glimmer of the hard-assed vampire that I remembered.
Venom Jennifer Estep 2010
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An ethic of old-fashioned, hard-assed knuckling down, less evident in today's society, often makes a more adept and resilient student than a culture of parental indulgence.
Marian Salzman: Booting Up Marian Salzman 2010
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TV Doakes talks too much, and he ends up reminding me of about 275 other hard-assed cops.
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Back to Sherrie & Ellen: "When you do The Rules, he treats you like a fragile, delicate flower" -- even if you're a hard-assed CEO to the rest of the world!
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An ethic of old-fashioned, hard-assed knuckling down, less evident in today's society, often makes a more adept and resilient student than a culture of parental indulgence.
Marian Salzman: Booting Up Marian Salzman 2010
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Her back straightened, her fingers tightened on the shotgun, and once again, I saw a glimmer of the hard-assed vampire that I remembered.
Venom Jennifer Estep 2010
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An ethic of old-fashioned, hard-assed knuckling down, less evident in today's society, often makes a more adept and resilient student than a culture of parental indulgence.
Marian Salzman: Booting Up Marian Salzman 2010
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