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hard-boiledadjective having or showing a lack of sympathy or tender feelingsa hard-boiled Puritan schoolmaster who was as unyielding as New England granite affectless, callous, case-hardened, cold-blooded, compassionless, desensitized, hard, hard-hearted, heartless, indurate, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, insensitive, ironhearted, merciless, obdurate, pachydermatous, pitiless, remorseless, ruthless, slash-and-burn, soulless, stony(also stoney), stonyhearted, take-no-prisoners, thick-skinned, uncharitable, unfeeling, unmerciful, unsparing, unsympathetic boorish, heedless, inconsiderate, thoughtless, uncaring, unfriendly, unloving, unthinkinggrim, hard-bitten, harsh, heavy-handed, ironfisted, ironhanded, jackbooted, knock-down, drag-out(or knock-down-and-drag-out), oppressive, rough, rough-and-tumble, severe, sledgehammer, stern, tough, ungentleabusive, acrimonious, disagreeable, hateful, ill-natured, ill-tempered, malevolent, malicious, mean, rancorous, spiteful, surly, virulentbarbarous, bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, evil-minded, savage, viciousaustere, cold, frosty charitable, compassionate, humane, kindhearted, kindly, merciful, sensitive, softhearted, sympathetic, tender, tenderhearted, warm, warmhearted benevolent, benignant, gentle, kindclement, indulgent, lenient, mildcordial, friendly, good-natured, good-tempered, gracioustolerant, understandingaffectionate, fond, loving having or showing a practical cleverness or judgmentmade the hard-boiled business decision to downsize the company, thereby costing thousands of longtime employees their jobs astute, canny, clear-eyed, clear-sighted, hardheaded, heady, knowing, savvy, sharp, sharp-witted, shrewd, smart artful, cagey(also cagy), crafty, cunning, devious, dodgy(chiefly British), foxy, guileful, pawky(chiefly British), slick, sly, subtle, tricky, wilydiscerning, insightful, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, sagacious, sage, sapient, wiseexperienced, veterandiscriminating, discriminativeagile, alert, brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, intelligent, keen, nimble, quick, quick-witted, sharp-eyed, sharp-sightedapt, ingenious, resourcefulcalculating, scheming unknowing artless, guileless, ingenuous, innocent, naive(or naïve)exploitable, gullible(also gullable)unperceptive, unwisedense, dull, obtuseairheaded, birdbrained, brain-dead, brainless, dim-witted, dopey(also dopy), dumb, empty-headed, feebleminded, gormless(chiefly British), half-witted, knuckleheaded, lamebrain(or lamebrained), lunkheaded, simple, slow, slow-witted, softheaded, stupid, thickheaded, thick-witted, unintelligent, weak-mindedfoolish, idiotic(also idiotical), imbecile(or imbecilic), moronic, silly, thoughtless, witlessignorant, uninformed in 1589 |