hard-faced

hard-faced

adj
dialect Northern English cheeky
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hard-faced

[ˈhɑːdfeɪst] ADJsevero, inflexible
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Then the hard-faced man came back again and offered twenty-three pounds.
She was a thin, hard-faced woman, very well-dressed, very reserved in manner.
The coachman, a hard-faced, gnarled little fellow, saluted Sir Henry Baskerville, and in a few minutes we were flying swiftly down the broad, white road.
James Smith was a hard-faced man, and my heart sank as I encountered him.
Alleyne gazed upon the scene--the portly velvet-clad official the knot of hard-faced archers with their hands to the bridles of their horses, the thief with his arms trussed back and his doublet turned down upon his shoulders.
Millions of driven into hard-faced which dishonestly to Millions of people will be driven into poverty by this hardfaced austerity - which Theresa May dishonestly promised to end.
Liverpool ONE IT HAS no roof, it's cold and wet It still has premises to let And yet it's busy every day With folks from near and faraway The local shops have all but gone There's no Jack Sharps in Liverpool ONE We'll never see their likes again Like Hobbies and the Wizard's Den Once hordes of housewives came from Wales Each Thursday to the weekly sales John Lewis "never knowingly undersold" Replaced George Henry Lee's of old In Paradise Street where tramcars ran A girls sells pasties from a van Where Maggie May cruised up and down When Liverpool was a sailor town The Eagle pub sells no more ale It's been there since the days of sail No cats or dogs in Liverpool ONE No hard-faced urchins, where have they gone?
She also slams rumours that she was shoplifting on the day James was taken, and responds to being described as "hard-faced".
Meanwhile, a traumatised Ian comes round in hospital to find he has two hard-faced blonde women fighting over him - and they both look uncannily like his mum.
I'm pretty sure she's had to spend a lot of time up Anna Wintour's rear in order to curry favour with the hard-faced New York fashion pack.
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