HARDCASE

Meaning of HARDCASE in English

[hard.case] adj (1896): hard-bitten, tough

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HARDCASE — adjective Date: 1896 hard-bitten , tough
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HARDCASE — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun Usage: often attributive 1. : a person by nature incorrigible or intractable : a tough customer ; especially …
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HARDCASE — adjective Date: 1896 : hard-bitten , tough
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HARDCASE — Synonyms and related words : adverse circumstances, adversity, affliction, aggravation, almsman, almswoman, annoyance, bankrupt, beggar, blight, bummer, care, casual, charity …
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HARDCASE — adj. Pronunciation: ' härd- ' k ā s Function: adjective Date: 1896 : HARD-BITTEN , TOUGH
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VICTIM — Synonyms and related words : also-ran, babe, beasts of venery, big game, boob, booby, butt, byword, byword of reproach, casualty, …
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VICISSITUDE — Synonyms and related words : adverse circumstances, adversity, affliction, aggravation, alteration, alternation, annoyance, asperity, blight, bummer, care, chain of circumstances, …
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UNFORTUNATE — Synonyms and related words : abortive, afflictive, apocalyptic, awful, awkward, bad, badly off, baleful, baneful, black, bodeful, boding, bootless, calamitous, …
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TROUBLE — Synonyms and related words : Dutch, abuse a privilege, ado, adverse circumstances, adversity, afflict, affliction, aggravate, aggravation, agitate, agitation, ail, …
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TRIBULATION — Synonyms and related words : adverse circumstances, adversity, affliction, aggravation, annoyance, blight, bummer, calvary, care, cross, crucible, curse, difficulties, difficulty, …
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TRIAL — Synonyms and related words : Olympic games, Olympics, R and D, acid test, adverse circumstances, adversity, affliction, aggravation, agony, anguish, …
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STRESS — Synonyms and related words : Alexandrine, accent, accentuate, accentuation, ache, aching, adverse circumstances, adversity, affliction, aggravation, ambivalence, ambivalence of impulse, …
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SCHLEMIEL
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SAD SACK — Synonyms and related words : Bowery bum, Milquetoast, baby, beachcomber, beggar, beggarly fellow, big baby, blighter, budmash, bum, bummer, caitiff, …
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RIGOR — Synonyms and related words : Albigensianism, Catharism, Franciscanism, Sabbatarianism, Trappism, Waldensianism, Yoga, absolute zero, absoluteness, abstinence, abstruseness, accuracy, acerbity, acidity, …
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PRESSURE — Synonyms and related words : abetment, adverse circumstances, adversity, advocate, affliction, aggravation, albatross, annoyance, apply pressure, argumentum baculinum, ascendancy, authority, …
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PREDICAMENT
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POOR DEVIL — Synonyms and related words : Bowery bum, almsman, almswoman, bankrupt, beachcomber, beggar, beggarly fellow, blighter, budmash, bum, bummer, caitiff, casual, …
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PLIGHT
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PAUPER — Synonyms and related words : almsman, almswoman, bankrupt, beggar, break, bum, bust, casual, charity case, down-and-out, down-and-outer, fold up, hardcase, …
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LOSER — Synonyms and related words : also-ran, bankrupt, bomb, booby, bummer, bust, clinker, con, defeatee, duck, dud, failure, fall guy, false …
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IRRITATION — Synonyms and related words : adverse circumstances, adversity, affliction, aggravation, agitation, algesia, amplification, animation, annoyance, arousal, arousing, augmentation, blight, bummer, …
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INDIGENT — Synonyms and related words : almsman, almswoman, bankrupt, beggar, beggared, beggarly, bereaved, bereft, casual, charity case, deprived, destitute, disadvantaged, down-and-out, …
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HARDSHIP — Synonyms and related words : adverse circumstances, adversity, affliction, aggravation, annoyance, asperity, austerity, bad luck, blight, broken fortune, bummer, care, …
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HARD LIFE — Synonyms and related words : adverse circumstances, adversity, affliction, aggravation, annoyance, blight, bummer, care, cross, curse, difficulties, difficulty, downer, hard …
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DOWNER
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DIFFICULTY — Synonyms and related words : Gordian knot, abstruseness, adverse circumstances, adversity, affliction, aggravation, agreement to disagree, altercation, annoyance, arduousness, asperity, …
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DIFFICULTIES — Synonyms and related words : adverse circumstances, adversity, affliction, aggravation, annoyance, blight, broken fortune, bummer, care, cross, curse, difficulty, distress, …
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CURSE — Synonyms and related words : Jonah, abuse, accurse, adverse circumstances, adversity, afflict, affliction, aggravation, aggrieve, anathema, anathematize, annoyance, bad influence, …
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CROSS
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CASUAL — Synonyms and related words : Bohemian, Charley, Mickey Mouse, VC, Vietcong, accessory, accidental, accidentally, additional, adscititious, adventitious, affable, aimless, airy, …
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CARE — Synonyms and related words : TLC, abetment, accordance, accountability, acquittal, acquittance, adherence, administration, adverse circumstances, adversity, advertence, advertency, advocacy, aegis, …
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