variants or hard-shelled
: fundamental sense 2b, fundamentalist
a hard-shell preacher
hard-shell Baptists
also : uncompromising, hidebound
a hard-shell conservative

Examples of hard-shell in a Sentence

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Word History

First Known Use

1836, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of hard-shell was in 1836

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“Hard-shell.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hard-shell. Accessed 14 Oct. 2024.

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