hard-bitten

== English == === Alternative forms === hardbitten === Adjective === hard-bitten (comparative more hard-bitten, superlative most hard-bitten) Callous and toughened by experience. 1996, Victor Davis Hanson, Introduction to The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to The Peloponnesian War: Its author, we must remember, was above all a man of action, an elected official, a captain, a traveler, and a pragmatic intellectual, a successful combatant against warrior and disease alike, hardbitten and intimate with both privilege and disgrace, a man who suffered with and outlived most of the greatest men of his age. ==== Translations ====