hard to take

phrase

: difficult to be around due to being rude, annoying, etc.

He's a little hard to take sometimes.

Examples of hard to take in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The owners and investors are pushing really hard to take the club back to the heights of European football. — Adam Crafton, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2026

Wakanda Forever thus became a story about mourning — but piling so many fictional deaths (ranging from nameless soldiers and civilians to the queen of Wakanda herself) on top of the real one becomes emotionally hard to take after a certain point. — Ew Staff, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Aug. 2026

Kharg and other such Iranian islands are hard to take and harder to hold. — Hamidreza Azizi, Time, 30 July 2026

The vines work hard to take root, and from their struggle come wines that are bold, aromatic, and uniquely Croatian. — Tia Lovisa Moreira, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2026

Rhymes for hard to take

• overtake
• rattlesnake
• shiitake
• undertake
• wapentake
• ache
• ake
• bake
• brake
• break
• cake
• craik