Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a close, firm grain.
- Unattractive; not amiable or inviting.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Like all digital technologies, the iPhone has yet to achieve the hard-grained, Spartan elegancies of the steely Leatherman.
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Like all digital technologies, the iPhone has yet to achieve the hard-grained, Spartan elegancies of the steely Leatherman.
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Like all digital technologies, the iPhone has yet to achieve the hard-grained, Spartan elegancies of the steely Leatherman.
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In the hard-grained face of Wegg, and in his stiff knotty figure (he looked like a German wooden toy), there was expressed a politic conciliation, which had no spontaneity in it.
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On the ground were placed, in two rows, sixteen chairs, made of hard-grained cedar.
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By the close of that first day it was clear that the hero of this expedition was going to be Harry Jensen, the cotton picker from South Carolina, for this hard-grained little fellow had a score of ingenious ideas remembered from his boyhood days in the cypress swamps along the Little Pee Dee in his home state.
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His eyes were still closed and his mouth was open and a mixture of saliva and blood drained out on the hard-grained wood.
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Besides all this, she has a sort of hard-grained little vein of common sense, against which my fanciful conceptions and poetical notions are apt to hit with just a little sharp grating, if they are not well put.
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On the ground were placed, in two rows, sixteen chairs, made of hard-grained cedar.
Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books
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I found the men putting clear boards with hard-grained streaks in them in with the No. 1 clear.
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