hardlooking

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adjective

Having a severe, vaguely menacing facial expression.

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Meanings

adjectivehardlooking (comparative more hardlooking, superlative most hardlooking)

comparative more hardlooking · superlative most hardlooking

  1. Having a severe, vaguely menacing facial expression.

    They sat in the backs of small, makeshift wagons, hardlooking men and women and their hardlooking, skinny children, preaching you over to their stand, promising your money's worth.

    2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 21, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 119

Origin

From hard + looking.

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APA

hardlooking. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hardlooking

MLA

“hardlooking.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hardlooking. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hardlooking,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hardlooking.

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