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Hard-bitten

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Callous and toughened by experience.
"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."

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tough and callous by virtue of experience wordnet

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